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HISTORY 

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The Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Ohio Volunteer 

Infantry 



By 

Joseph Nelson Ashburn 

Late Private of Company A 



Nineteen Hundred and Nine 
Cleveland, Ohio 









THE A. S. GILMAN PRINTING CO. 
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This Volume is Lovingly Dedicated to the Com- 
rades of the Eighty-Sixth Regiment, 0. V. /., 
Their Wives, Widows and Descendants. 




COLONEL WILSON G. LEMERT 

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OUR COLONEL 

Illustrating how sraoefully a Rood soldier grows old 
Photographed 1908 



Foreword 

This unpretentious history of the movements 
and achievements of the Eighty-Sixth Regiment of 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in our late Civil War, 
was conceived in the conviction that it is a debt of 
honor due to our children and friends, whose solici- 
tude for, and care of us, have ever been sponta- 
neously and lovingly bestowed. Remembrance of us 
and our martial experiences is their natural heri- 
tage, and prompted by this feeling we hand them 
this bit of war history out of our lives, in shape 
and condition that will best insure its preservation. 

The knowledge necessary to weave this history 
into a connected web comes directly from Camp, 
Field and Fray. It is copied from our memories, 
from old pocket diaries which were carried safely 
through our campaign from muster-in to muster- 
out, from souvenirs gathered by the way and now 
treasured at home as silent witnesses, and by cor- 
roborations dragged out of the musty archives now 
stored in the Adjutant General's oflSce at Wash- 
ington and Columbus. These sources give reli- 



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ability, but entire completeness would require the 
autobiography of every comrade in the regiment. 
Nixon B. Stewart well says, ''When a soldier dies, 
there is a historian lost. ' ' 

On the blank pages of this book note down 
anecdotes and incidents which your memories still 
retain, and thus nail them fast to our history. Be 
they sad or be they sunny, jot them down and make 
your volume that much more complete for you and 
yours. When you learn of the death of a comrade, 
turn to the roster and star his name with a soldier's 
reverence. 

Photographs of Field Officers and Captains 
have been carefully reproduced in this work as far 
as they could be secured, and we regret that every 
comrade in turning these leaves, cannot enjoy 
meeting his Captain's features of 45 years agone. 
We have done the best we could, and trust the re- 
sult may be commended. 

The author acknowledges kind and prompt 
assistance from the Regimental Society gen- 
erally, and from some noble compatriots of a 
younger generation who have shown their ap- 
preciation of the ''Old Guard" by the unsolicited 
contribution of the time, means and labor neces- 
sary to bring this book to successful completion. 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Let us always remember that when we meet Charles 
B. Calder of Toledo, Arthur S. Gilman of Cleve- 
land, or Ora J. Fish of Cleveland, that we are in 
the presence of a loyal and tried friend of that 
ragged but victorious old army, and that we are 
proud to have their names grace the records of the 
Eighty-Sixth Regiment. 

J. N. ASHBURN. 

Cleveland, February 12, 1909. 




OUR REGIMENTAL FLAG 

Photographed November, 1908 

We started with it from Camp Cleveland. It partook of all our wanderings, 

returning to the same camp at the end of the campaign, and was 

mustered out with us. There is little left of it except its 

glory and the sacred halo of its associations, 

which its followers ever 

recognize. 



HISTORY 

of the 

Eighty-Sixth Regiment 
O. V. I. 

There were two regiments of this number from 
Ohio during the Civil War. One was a tliree 
months' regiment, which was mustered out of ser- 
vice September 25, 1862; the other and later one, 
enlisted for six months, and was mustered out of 
the service February 10, 1864. The movements 
and accomplishments of this six months ' regiment 
is the subject of this narrative. 

It was organized July 14, 1863, with Field and 
Staff Officers as shown in the regimental roster in 
the back part of this book. Henry Douglas, Cap- 
tain of the 18th Infantry, U. S. A., had previously 
mustered into service the different companies with 
their commissioned officers. The company and 
regimental formations were effected at Camp 
Cleveland, which was located in the southern part 
of the City of Cleveland, on what was then known 
as ' ' University Heights, ' ' an elevation near to and 
overlooking the Cuyahoga River and its valley. 
Here the troops were quartered in wooden barracks 
until the moving of the regiment. 



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Judging from tJie iiiiniber of good officers who 
were willing to be its commander, this regiment 
was ceitainly a promising one. 

By a process of elimination, the contest finally 
centered around George B. Senter, Commander 
of the Cam}i, and George L. Hayward, both of 
Cleveland. The rivaliy being wann and spirited 
is worthy of record, and can best be presented to 
the reader by quoting from Colonel Lemert's 
letter to me of July 1, 1907, as follows : 

"The regiment was already assembled at 
Cleveland before I knew of its existence. Whilst 
it was in camp at Cleveland, its organization was 
obstructed by the rival candidacy for Colonelcy 
of Senter and Haj^ward. Govenor Tod would have 
appointed either, 'were t'other dear charmer 
away. ' 

**By opportune accident, I assisted Governor 
Tod at a war meeting at Mansfield, and addressed 
the Mothers of Soldiers, which pleased the Mother 
and the Governor. I had already served as 1st 
and 2d Lieutenant, Captain and Major. After 
the meeting was over, the Governor gave me tlie 
situation at Cleveland, and offered me the com- 
mand, which I willingly accepted. I requested 
his written order, but he remarked, ' It is unneces- 

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sary ; say to them Governor Tod sent you. ' Wlien 
I joined the Command at Cleveland, I found that 
whilst half of the regiment was opposed to Colonel 
Senter, and half was opposed to Hayward, that 
both halves were opposed to me. Therefore, I 
camped at the Weddell House, and remember it 
as the best camp of the campaign. A few days 
later the Governor ordered the candidates to Col- 
umbus, and there settled in my mind the advantage 
of having the Chief Executive on my side. Hay- 
ward was consoled by a commission as Lieutenant 
Colonel of the 129th 0. V. I., and Colonel Senter 
was left in command of the camp at Cleveland." 

At Camp Cleveland the different companies 
were drilled, uniformed, and equipped complete, 
except tents. We were armed with Austrian rifles 
fitted witli tri-cornered bayonets. Some of the 
barrels were bronzed and others were left bright. 
Those guns were servicable enough for drilling 
purposes, but not true to aim; the ball was erratic 
about landing on the target. The bore was 52, 
I think. 

On the 15th of July we were drawn up in 
regimental formation, and marched to the old 
Union Depot on the lake, near the mouth of the 
Cuyahoga River. From there we were taken to 

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Columbus by the Cleveland & Columbus Railroad. 
That night we slept in the open— our first experi- 
ence in camping out. 

For a week the regiment occupied tents near 
the City Park, calling the place Camp Tod, after 
the Governor of our State. Then we moved four 
miles up the Scioto River where we dedicated a 
new camp in a nice grove of beautiful young oaks, 
maples and hickories. It extended along the right 
bank of the river, and was bounded on the op- 
posite side by the Columbus & Cincinnati Rail- 
road. We brought the name of our old camp with 
us, and the Governor rode out in his carriage and 
made us a fine speech as we stood at attention in 
solid formation. He complimented us on our neat 
and intelligent appearance, said he expected to 
hear a good report of us from the front, and seemed 
to lean upon us with such positive assurance that 
he at last had found the regiment which would 
surely crush the Rebellion, that we grew an inch 
in our tracks with heroic pride. This camp was 
one mile north of Camp Chase, and four miles 
northwest of the City of Columbus. 

Our routine duties at this time, may be 
gathered from the following order: ''Camp Tod, 
July 17, 1863 ; General Order No. 1. Reveille at 

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5 a. m. ; Company Drill, 5.30 to 6.30 ; Breafast at 
7.00; Sick Call, 7.30; Policing Quarters, 7.30 to 
8.00; 1st Sergeant's Call, 8.00; Officers' Drill, 
8.00 to 9.00; Guard Mount, 9.00; Company Drill, 
9.00 to 11.30; Dinner, 12 m.; Company Drill, 2.00 
to 4.00 p. m.; Battalion Drill, 4.00 to 5.30; Dress 
Parade, 5.30 to 6.00; Company Drill, 6.30 to 7.30; 
Roll Call, 8.00; Tattoo, 8.45; Taps, 9.00. Signals 
will be sounded on the bugle." This order of the 
Colonel was observed, varied occasionally by 
double-quicking over to Camp Chase to help quell 
a riot, or rushing over to Columbus to prevent 
the disturbing element at Camp Chase from cross- 
ing the river and destroying a Vallandigham flag 
and some newspaper plant over which it floated. 
On Wednesday, July 22d, we were ordered 
to assist in the capture of the notorious raider 
chieftain. General John H. Morgan, and his fol- 
lowers, who had invaded the state from Indiana, 
2,500 strong, but now reduced by death, capture 
and desertion to about one-third that number. 
Pursuant to General Burnside's direction from 
Cincinnati, Adjutant General Mason, through his 
Special Order No. 82, rushed us down to Zanes- 
ville by rail, where we arrived at 4 p. m. Our 
regiment established headquarters at the Stacy 



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House, bivouacked on the Muskingum County 
Fairground, and threw out several companies on 
roads commanding the city. The regiment was 
sent into the field in companies and parts of com- 
panies in search of the enemy. On the 23d com- 
panies C, D, E, G and H, under command of Lieut. 
Colonel McFarland went down the Muskingum 
River by boat. At Eaglesport the rebels were 
discovered crossing the river to the eastward. 
Then commenced a hot skirmish which detained 
a part of the Morgan forces about three hours. 

Of this skirmish, Captain Briggs of Com- 
pany H says: "We left the boat just before we 
reached the ford where the rebels were crossing, 
and under cover of the bank or a bend in the Mus- 
kingum, we landed without the enemy's knowledge. 
We struck the road leading back from the river 
about 300 yards from the landing, and creeping 
near the top of the ridge, waited for the Johnnies 
to come. The guide had assured Colonel McFar- 
land that they must come by us and could get out 
no other way. A premature discharge of one of 
our guns caused them to investigate, which re- 
sulted in their crossing a deep gully about 300 
yards below where we were waiting for them. 
They were slow in crossing, but as fast as they 



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crossed, they formed and marched slowly east- 
ward along a rail fence. 

"I don't think more than 100 of them had 
crossed the gully when the Colonel ordered me 
to take my company out the road we had been 
guarding to where it struck the Zanesville road, 
to prevent them from going toward the city. But 
when they struck that point they turned south, both 
sides firing, and the firing becoming general along 
our road line down toward the river. We fired 
four or five volleys into them as the left of their 
column was making the turn, and then by the sug- 
gestion of our guide we double-quicked across to 
another turn in the road where they must pass. 
By keeping along a fence where bushes and briars 
grew thick, we reached the schoolhouse at the turn 
and attacked them as they were coming through 
a lane. At the first volley, men, horses and rails 
were pretty badly mixed. The enemy returned 
our fire, but as before, without effect. Altogether 
in this scrimmage we killed one of the enemy and 
wounded eight or ten. 

'^Company H returned to Zanesville by boat 
with the other companies who were already aboard, 
and remaining there until the final capture of the 



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LIEUT.-COL. McFARLAND 




MAJOR KRAUS 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Morgan troops, assisted in guarding their officers 
to Cincinnati." 

The next day after this skirmish, Major Kraus 
with a detachment of us mounted at Cambridge, 
came up with the rear-guard of the enemy, entirely 
routing them and leaving two dead and four 
wounded without loss to us. From here on we 
followed with few collisions until the final capture 
on July 26th at 4 p. m. 

The prisoners were taken to Wellsville, and 
at three o'clock the next morning were started 
by rail, the officers for Cincinnati, and the rank 
and file for Camp Chase. Colonel McFarland as- 
sures me that he personally counted these prisoners 
when in line at the Columbus depot, and again on 
their entering Camp Chase, and that in both in- 
stances the count was 565. In accordance with 
Colonel Lemert's Special Order No. 7, Major 
Kraus, with a detail taken from Companies A, I 
and K, marched back to Zanesville for the purpose 
of distributing to the owners the property we had 
borrowed while on the trail of the raiders. The 
rest of the regiment returned by rail via Wells- 
ville, Steubenville, Bellaire and Zanesville to 
Camp Tod, where we arrived at 10 p. m., the 28th. 

During this wild pursuit the regiment was 
split up in bunches under different officers. Com- 

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pany A was detailed as guard to a detachment 
of the 22d 0. Lt. Artillery, which joined us with 
three six-pounder Rodman Guns, Only one of 
these pieces got into action, firing thirteen rounds 
near Georgetown with doubtful results. 

This raid occupied the attention of our regi- 
ment just one week. We traveled about 400 miles, 
and passed through Zanesville, Cambridge, Wash- 
ington, Winchester, Antrim, Londonderry, Smyrna, 
Moorefield, New Athens, Georgetown, Harrisville, 
Little York, Bloomfield, Richmond, Somerset, 
Hammondsville and Salineville. We had traveled 
by rail, by horse, by wagon, by buggy, and on foot. 
We took horses whenever and wherever we could 
find serviceable ones; but there was one instance 
I remember well, where an old gentleman and his 
daughter each rode a beautiful horse through our 
company without giving them up to us, though 
they were stopped many times. Their plea was 
that they were hastening to the deathbed of the 
young lady's mother, and if detained they might 
arrive there too late to see her alive. So none of 
these 100 men who had just enlisted to go out and 
kill people was sufficiently seasoned to forget his 
own dear old mother back on the f ann long enough 
to take away the means of transportation of this 



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couple in distress, and so two of the finest horses in 
Ohio did not participate in the Morgan raid. 

The story of this famous raid was something 
like this : Late in June, 1863, General Rosecrans, 
with headquarters at Murfreesboro, Tenn., was 
menacing General Bragg at and around Shelby- 
ville, between which two armies a decisive battle 
must be fought sooner or later. General Judah 
with 10,000 men was keeping transportation open 
through central Kentucky so that re-enforcements 
and supplies could be forwarded from the Ohio 
River to Rosecrans' anny with certainty and 
despatch. On the other hand. General Buclmer, 
with 10,000 rebels, was master of East Tennessee, 
and within supporting distance of General Bragg. 
The latter General, fearing that General Burnside 
(who conunanded the Army of the Ohio, with head- 
quarters at Cincinnati), would re-enforce Rose- 
crans, conceived the strategic idea of sending Gen- 
eral John H. Morgan with his cavaliy to make a 
diversion up through Kentucky to keep Judah busy 
and mystify Burnside. Bragg chose the best man 
available for this stunt, but unluckily lost control 
of him. 

Basil W. Duke, second in command and his- 
torian of Morgan's Cavalry, emphatically states 



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that Morgan asked permission of General Bragg to 
cross the Ohio River, which request was denied. 
But Morgan had been preparing for months for 
this raid, had secured full knowledge of every ford 
on the river, and when once he was somewhat out 
from the influence of his superior officers, proposed 
to cany out his pet scheme. 

The start was made from near Sparta in the 
Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee on one of the 
last days of June, with a force of over 2,000 
mounted troops and four pieces of artillery. They 
reached the Cumberland River at its flood, and by 
the aid of boats which they constructed, crossed it 
at and below Burkesville on the 3d of July- 
swimming their horses, and easily evading and 
outriding General Judah's troops. Continuing 
northward, they swept everj^thing before them until 
they struck Tebb 's Bend on Green River, the 4th of 
July. Here they met Col. 0. H. Moore, of the 25th 
Michigan, with 200 men so well intrenched in a 
natural stronghold that he defied the rebel General, 
told him that loyal men could never surender on 
the Nation's birthday, and then the fight was on. 
After three hours of desperate fighting, trying to 
change the Colonel 's mind, Morgan withdrew badly 

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worsted— the only serious reverse he received from 
the time he started imtil he was well across the 
State of Ohio. The rebels passed on to Lebanon, 
capturing the town with some opposition, thence to 
Springfield, Bardstown, and on to Shepherdsville, 
where learning, by tapping the telegraph wires, 
that Louis\alle was well defended and expecting 
them, they deflected their course down the Ohio 
River, still pillaging, fighting, and capturing by 
the way. Arriving at Brandenburg, on the left 
bank of the Ohio, the General decided to cross the 
river, carry his standard into the free states, rob, 
burn, and destroy to the satisfaction of his lawless 
band, gather and attach to his forces all sympathiz- 
ing "Butternuts," and sweep through the loyal 
states like a scourge sent from an avenging god. 

Capturing two steamers employed in tue river 
trade, he crossed over with some timid opposition 
from two little gunboats and some Indiana home- 
guards, and fled easterly to avoid the Federal troops 
then gathering in pursuit. His troops looted every 
town they struck in Indiana. The grist mills were 
only spared by being ransomed. After passing 
Cincinnati and realizing the opposition then mobil- 
izing along the river, and the absence of any re- 



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GAPT. TRUESDALE 
Company A 




CAPT. YEAGER 
Gompany E 



Ohio Volutsteee Infantry, 1863-64 

cruits, he became alarmed and began laying plans 
to recross the river. In the meantime Generals 
Hobson and Shackleford, with Kentucky, Indiana, 
Michigan and Ohio troops, were gradually closing 
in upon him. On the 19th of July, half of Mor- 
gan 's force was either killed or captured near Buf- 
fington Island, where he had planned to cross the 
river, and farther up the river, many more either 
crossed over, or were killed or captured in the at- 
tempt. Here the raider turned northward, where 
we met him on the Muskingum, and escorted him 
to his final surrender in Columbiana County. He 
and his officers were confined in the Ohio peniten- 
tiary, from which he and six of his officers (one of 
them, Captain Taylor, a nephew of ''Old Zach,") 
escaped in just four months from the day of his 
capture, by burrowing down through the stone floor 
of one of their cells, and out under the wall of the 
prison. 

General Shackleford announced to Colonel 
Lewis Richmond, A. A. G. to General Burnside 
at Cincinnati, the capture of Morgan as follows: 

''Headquarters in the field, two miles from 
New Lisbon, Ohio, July 26th. By the blessing of 
Almighty God, I have succeeded in capturing Gen- 
eral John H. Morgan, Colonel Cluke and the rest 

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of their command, numbering some 400. I will 
leave on the first train with Morgan and his staff 
for Cincinnati. T am. Colonel, Yours, etc., J. M. 
Shackleford, Brigadier General Commanding." 

Major George W. Rue, the actual captor of 
Morgan, belonged to the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. 
He and a detachment were sent from Cincinnati by 
rail with fresh horses, and landing nearly in front 
of the enemy, got there and captured the remnant 
of that proud rebel band which crossed the Ohio 
River eighteen days before. Major Rue, in his re- 
port to Colonel Richmond on the 29th of July, says 
that he captured 384 men, rank and file, and about 
400 horses. 

When Morgan and his men surrendered to 
Major Rue, they were in Columbiana County, on 
the line between Wayne and Madison Townships, 
and on the road between the farms of John Craw- 
ford and David Burdick, and about nine miles from 
the Pennsylvania state line. 

Morgan 's first pretended surrender to General 
Shackleford was at Bashan Church, four miles 
from Buffington Island; the second was at Belle- 
ville, nearly up to Parkersburg; but each time 
Morgan himself disappeared with a part of his 
command. He was finally so hemmed in by Major 
Rue that he had to face his captor, for he did not 

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have men enough left to hide behind and take an- 
other sneak. He crossed the Ohio state line on the 
13th, was 13 days crossing the State, and was cap- 
tured on a double 13 — 26th. Here is a combination 
that would sink a ship. 

General Hobson testifies that he saw, during 
the pursuit through Ohio, as many as 600 of his 
soldiers asleep in their saddles at the same time. 
When the capture of the peerless horse-stealer was 
announced, there was great rejoicing all over the 
countiy, and George D. Prentice suggested in his 
paper that a salute of one gun be fired before every 
stable door in the land. 

Morgan's escape from our penitentiary was 
made a subject of inquiry by our Legislature at 
Columbus, in the winter of 1863 and 1864. It was 
done by the Committee on Penitentiary of the 
Lower House, and seems to have been thorough. 
The Committee Report recommended the discharge 
of Lieutenant William A. Judkins from the United 
States Army, on the ground of either weak intellect 
or defective morality, and disapproved of the said 
Judkins furnishing the prisoners with saws, files, 
vises, etc., which were among the facts proved. 

John Hunt Morgan was born in Huntsville, 
Alabama, June 1, 1826. He was raised and lived 

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near Lexington, Kentuclcy, and was killed Septem- 
ber 4, 1864, while trying to escape in the night 
from General Gillem and his troops, who had him 
surrounded in a farmhouse near Greenville, Ten- 
nessee. 

On August 2d, at Camp Tod, an inspection 
of the regiment was ordered, and we went through 
our paces, and showed off acceptably to our officers. 

August 8th, Hill, Adjutant General of Ohio, 
ordered the 86th Regiment to Hiclonan's Bridge, 
Camp Nelson, Kentucky. 

August 9th, we boarded a Columbus & Cin- 
cinnati train at the camp, and were whirled away 
to Cincinnati, where we spent the night in our 
blankets on the wharf, dreaming of better days in 
the Nation's history and softer pillows in ours. 

Next morning the regiment was ferried across 
the Ohio River to Covington, where, after a few 
hours ' delay, it marched two miles out the railroad, 
and bivouaced for the night in a beautiful private 
park. Next day at noon we took the Covington and 
Lexington train for Nicholasville, Jessamine 
County, Kentucky. From here, on the 12th, we 
marched seven miles to Camp Nelson, singing as we 
went. Our regimental song was ' ' Rally Round the 
Flag, Boys, ' ' and was often rolling up from a thou- 

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sand loyal throats in unison, and with genuine 
patriotic earnestness, as we swung along on our 
weary march. Music is a kind and encouraging 
stimulant. Its influence is helpful and very 
strengthening. When, on crossing the Rockcastle 
River, a dozen of us got dumped in the water by 
the swamping of our dugout, and we continued our 
march, stoop-shouldered in body and spirits under 
the additional weight of water we carried, how 
quickly we became as erect as if on dress parade 
when Donaldson started up his favorite song of 
''Peter Mullen Had A Little Dog." Yes, music 
under trying circumstances is like magic— influ- 
encing us without seeing how it is done. 

At Camp Nelson we drew ' ' dog ' ' tents and re- 
mained until most of the brigade had joined us. 
We drew tents on the 13th. 

We were assigned to De Courcy 's Independent 
Brigade, which was registered as 3d Brigade, 2d 
Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio. Gen- 
eral Burnside was our Army Commander, General 
Potter our Corps Commander, General 0. B. Wil- 
cox our Division Commander, and Colonel John F. 
de Courcy (of the 16th 0. V. I.) our Brigade Com- 
mander. General Burnside left for Tennessee a 
few days before we left camp, taking the Stanford 



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road at Lancaster, afterward crossing the moun- 
tains through Big River Gap, and on to Knoxville, 
from which place he suddenly appeared on the 
southern side of Cumberland Gap on the morning 
of September 9th. 

August 19th, Colonel de Courcy's General 
Order No. 1 mentions the Commands in the Bri- 
gade as the 86th 0. V. I., the 129th 0. V. I., and the 
22d Independent Ohio Battery. He also instructs 
the brigade to be ready to march. 

At 4 o'clock, on the morning of August 20tli, 
the brigade broke camp and marched southward, 
the 86th on the right of line, and Company A ad- 
vance guard. We marched 21 miles, arriving in 
camp three miles south of Lancaster, at 10 o'clock 
]). m., and thereafter. The day was hot and the 
boys were hotter. This was their waterless bap- 
tism in hard marching. It worried them good and 
plenty, and left them shaky and wabbly at gun 
stacking. Company A guarded the streets of Lan- 
caster while the brigade was passing through, thus 
becoming rearguard from there to camp. The 
roadsides for the three miles were well punctuated 
with exhausuted soldiers. 

On Friday, the 21st, the march was 12 miles 
to Camp Crab Orchard, stopping half way for din- 

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ner at Camp Dick Robinson. The brigade lay at 
Crab Orchard, resting through the excessive hot 
weather, until Tuesday, the 25th, when it broke 
camp and marched 12 miles to Camp Ohio, at Mt. 
Vemon, the county seat of Rockcastle County. Next 
day, at the usual morning hour, 5.30, the brigade 
moved out of camp, and marched 12 miles to Camp 
Wildcat. About noon it halted, after fording Rock- 
castle River, for dinner and a long rest. The coun- 
try was wild and rough, and the artillery frequently 
had to be helped over the steep places by the in- 
fantry. Camp Wildcat is 13 miles north of Lon- 
don, and was the scene of a battle between General 
Zollikoffer's forces and the Federals under General 
Schoepf, the latter driving the rebels back into 
Barboursville. General Buell's army had also driven 
General Bragg and his forces over this same 
< ' Fighting Right of Way ' ' all the way from Louis- 
ville to Barboursville and beyond. Many evidences 
of the retreat and skirmishes dotted our route from 
Camp Dick Robinson to the Cumberland River. 

Thursday, August 27th, we marched 10 miles 
to Camp Pitman, at Hazel Patch, three miles north 
of London. We threw out strong pickets and 
camped here four days, and something was doing 
every minute of our stay. 



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First, our brigade was completed, as announced 
by Colonel de Courcy's Special Order No. 5, dated 
August 31, 1863, which read: "The commands 
in the brigade and order of march are respectively 
as follows: 8th Tennessee Cavalry, 86th 0. V. I., 
22d Independent Ohio Battery, 129th O. V. L, 
11th Tennessee Cavalry, and 9th Tennessee Caval- 
ry. ' ' This was our brigade at the date designated, 
and nothing was attached to, or detached from it 
until after the surrender of Cumberland Gap, when 
the 16th Illinois Cavalry, the 4th Ohio Independent 
Battalion, and the 115th Indiana Infantry became 
a part of it. 

Second, the happy thought of resorting to the 
ruse of changing the brass numbers worn on our 
caps to designate the number of the regiment to 
which the wearer belonged, so as to make more 
regiment numbers, and thus lead the enemy 's spies 
to conclude that there were as many regiments as 
there were different numbers on the caps, was car- 
ried into execution in this camp. In fact, we so 
manipulated the cap numbers of our two infantry 
regiments that we effectually proved that we had 
16 infantry regiments, and the Johnnies believed it. 
So one day they, acting up to their belief, sur- 



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rendered to us ; otherwise our bones would now be 
bleaching on that infernally dangerous mountain 
side. Long live the man who invented the trick. 

And third, our rations were cut in two in the mid- 
dle at liis camp, and never restored until we re- 
crossed the Ohio River. This may have been good 
to prevent our over-feeding, but it is neither a 
pleasant nor a comfortable experience to be hungry 
day and night for six months without any inter- 
mission for refreshments. This was truly the preg- 
nant camp of our whole campaign. Something 
affecting our military life was being born here 
every minute of our stay. 

On Tuesday, September 1st, the brigade moved 
south 10 miles to Big Laurel Creek, where it 
camped for the night, on the left of the road, in an 
old orchard at the back of a farmhouse. 

September 2d, we marched eight miles, and 
camped in a valley among melon patches— effect- 
ively guarded by Company E. On this day we first 
sighted the Cumberland Range of mountains— a 
hazy outline on our left flank and front. 

September 3d, we marched eight miles to Bar- 
boursville on the Cumberland River, where we 
slept in line of battle. 

September 4th, we marched 10 miles to camp 
Flat Lick, or Camp Return, as it was designated by 

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De Courcy. This camp, two weeks before our en- 
tering it, was occupied by tlie enemy. We slept 
in line of battle, with the artillery posted on a hill 
supporting our left, and the cavalry in front. The 
brigade remained in this camp the 5th and the 6th, 
with orders to be ready at a moment's notice to 
march without knapsacks. Here three days' half- 
lations were issued to us with the injunction to use 
them sparingly. (There was a long dry spell of at- 
tenuated eating before us, but we did not guess it 
then.) 

On Monday, September 7th, we marched 12 
miles, forded the Cumberland River, which was 
quite low, and went into camp two miles beyond— 
12 miles from Cumberland Gap. The 86th got into 
camp about 2.00 p. m., and 10 men of Com- 
pany A, joroperly officered, were sent out foraging. 
In eight miles' travel with a wagon, we borrowed 
some melons, apples, peaches, commeal, cornbread, 
applejack brandy, sorghum syrup, chickens and 
several cattle, which were all expended for the good 
of the service by morning. 

Tuesday, September 8th, we started at an early 
hour toward the Gap, whose fortifications were vis- 
ible at noon, about five miles away. At this point 



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in our march, Companies A and B deployed as 
skirmishers, breaking off from the road to the left, 
and moving straight for the enemy's fortifications. 
Soon after, the main body of our regiment left the 
road also and followed our lead. The three spurs 
or ranges of hills, over whose toes we had just 
passed, are locally known as the Log Mountains, the 
nearest one to the Gap being about four miles dis- 
tant from it. Each skirmisher made his own road 
over these trackless crags, and through this crazy 
landscape, driving in the enemy's pickets as they 
advanced. Meanwhile the artillery was pulled along 
through an ancient and obscure and unused wagon 
route by the aid of a guard and a guide, while the 
infantry was faithfully performing their laborious 
stunt on the south face of the last Log Mountain, 
of marching over a hill down into the valley and 
back up a hidden gully, then again over the same 
hill and down into the same valley and back up the 
same gully, and round and round a sufficient num- 
ber of times to convince General Frazer, the rebel 
commander (who with field-glass could count our 
men), that we surely had the sixteen infantry regi- 
ments which the numbers on our caps proclaimed. 
All the cavalry had to do was to hide its own insig- 



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nificance in the clouds of dust which it was careful 
to kick up. 

That night our regiment lay on, or close to, the 
Harlan road, about two miles from the Gap proper. 
Our scale of provisions run all the way from very 
little to nothing, my supper consisting of a cup of 
wintergreen tea, the herb gathered on the spot. A 
few shots were fired at random over us, but failing 
to draw a reply, all was quiet during the night. 
Company K stood picket guard for our regiment. 
Captain Millikan was left in the rear, with instruc- 
tions to look after the sick and guard camp prop- 
erty. 

Wednesday, September 9th, Companies A and 
B, and perhaps other companies, advanced about 
one and one-half miles, under cover of the uneven- 
ness of the ground, and there in a little valley, or 
dr}^ bed of a creek, protected by crags and a little 
rise of ground, with unslung knapsacks, awaited 
the order to charge. Our orders were, when our 
battery opened fire, for us to charge upon the first 
fortification before us, which was four or five hun- 
dred yards up the mountain side, and, as we after- 
ward learned, called ' ' Rocky Fort. ' ' Time passed. 
We were alert, cautious, expectant, restless, nerv- 
ous, and very anxious. The whole prospect of our 

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Company C 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

future was imaged on our eyes and burned into 
our souls. If we charged up that steep, rough way 
toward the fortification frowning with death and 
destruction, we would be slain. Not a boy wavered. 
Not a white feather found a resting place in our 
ranks. We did not wish to be dead heroes, but no 
one thought of retreat except under orders. Our 
feelings were intensified by the uncertainty of re- 
sults, and we showed the strain by our forced calm 
and reticence. About the middle of the afternoon, 
the Secession colors were suddenly hauled down 
and several white flags displayed. With one 
mighty shout we gave voice to our wrought-up 
emotions; then, hunting up and shouldering our 
knapsacks, the 86th Regiment formed right in front 
and marched into the Gap by the Harlan road, 
where it proudly planted our Starry Flag on the 
much disputed ground. 



Here follows the photograph on my brain 
of how the 86th marched into Cumberland Gap : 

It marched up the mountain with stateliest tread, 
Each gun held aslant at right-shoulder shift. 

Each man was a soldier from boots to his head. 
And his eye had the sparkle of Victory's gift. 



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The pride of our hearts shone bright in our eyes 
And made every footfall a cadence of joy ; 

All eager we pressed up the mountain 's sharp rise : 
Each soldier a man, though in years but a boy. 

Through hunger's fatigue, and wearisome march. 
By nei'viest nerve that conquered defeat, 

We knocked the keystone from that rebel arch 
And hallowed it into a Union seat. 

Tramp, tramp, to the beat of drum, marched the 
host, 

All proud to possess the prize we had won ; 
For well we had laid the Secession ghost, 

And buried it deep with saber and gun. 

Led on by our Colonel, as brave as the best, 

The Eighty-Sixth marched with trumpets ablare 

Up into that frowning old Secession nest. 
And planted the stars of "Old Glory" there. 

On this surrender let me again quote from the 
Colonel's letter: "On the afternoon of September 
8th, the Confederate outposts and pickets were 
driven inside their fortifications. The advance of 
the 86th, which led the vanguard of the attacking 
force, slept on the Harlan road within 400 yards of 
the enemy's most formidable fortress. On the 
night of the 8th, a council of war decided to attack 
next morning at sunrise, the 86th in the lead, with 
orders to open the fight on our right, and as soon 
as the engagement was fairly on, to concentrate in 



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an assault on the main fortress on the left of the 
Harlan road. For this latter rush, 400 men were 
chosen from the 86th. They were stripped of knap- 
sacks, haversacks and all weights which would 
impede the contemplated rush. Major Kraus was 
to open the attack on the right. I was to lead the 
400 in the assault on the fortress. 

* ' A little after sunrise a messenger came from 
General Frazer, commanding the Confederates, and 
was received on the Harlan road by our outi)osts. 
Very many times in my life I have been enraptured 
by the memory of that letter from General Frazer ; 
the correspondence would charm any soldier within 
sight of that slaughter-house, especially as the 
order to the 400 had been to charge with empty 
guns. When I asked De Courcy why the empty 
guns, he answered that troops unaccustomed to the 
charge would, as soon as they saw the enemy, com- 
mence firing and reloading and thereby break the 
assault. The 129th Ohio was to attack on our left, 
and as I subsequently discovered, would have met 
the 64th North Carolina and a part of the 55th 
Georgia. 

** Colonel de Courcy had sent the demand for 
surrender on the 8th, to which General Frazer 
answered early on the morning of the 9th, and after 

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frequent interchanges of messages relating to 
terms, General Frazer, with his forces, surrendered 
at 4.00 p. m., September 9th, and the 86th O. V. I. 
was the first to enter the enemy's fortifications and 
take possession of the prisoners. 

''The regiment moved handsomely, guns at 
right-shoulder shift, to the tune of ' The Girl I Left 
Behind Me.' We never marched so well before 
or afterward. Two officers were ruined by that 
day's work— Frazer because he surrendered, and 
De Courcy because he captured him. The Con- 
federate records show that the Cumberland Gap 
garrison, commanded by General Frazer, numbered 
2,460 men, of which a few escaped. This was 
proved in the trial of General Frazer for the sur- 
render of his army. As Colonel de Courcy was 
charged with insubordination, but not tried, the 
strength of his brigade is difficult to establish ; but 
the nearest that I can obtain from Washington and 
private sources is 3,000." 

The Colonel's figures are high. I find by a 
careful analysis of the roster of Ohio troops in the 
brigade, and deducting 71/2 per cent for sick and 
unfit for duty (a low estimate), we arrive at the 
following result on September 9th: 

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86tli Regiment 845 

129th Regiment 867 

22d Ohio Batter>^ 212 

Add General Burnside's report to 
General Halleck, on Sept. 9th, that 

De Courcy 's Cavalry numbered . . . 800 

We establish a total of 2,724 

Burnside's report of the strength of the 
cavalry was probably correct, as he had good op- 
portunity for reliable information in the matter, 
and the number of sick can hardly be over- 
estimated, as may be inferred from the following 
despatch which explains itself, and serves to 
illustrate De Courcy 's vigorous style: 

' ' Barboursville, Ky., September 7th. To Brig- 
adier General Potter. My sick are filling the 
houses in my rear, and I have no surgeons or medi- 
cines to leave with them. Dr. Wilson can infonn 
you that I foretold this and some of the other 
disasters which must take place on this line of 
operations, unless commissary, quarter-masters and 
medical departments work in a different fashion 
from what they are now doing. John F. de Courcy, 
Colonel Commanding. ' ' 

We captured 12 pieces of ordnance, besides a 
large quantity of small arms, ammunition, wagons, 
mules, flour, wheat, bacon and '^ jerked" beef— 
much of the latter spoiled on the poles. The pro- 



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visions were mighty acceptable, and we thanked the 
Johnnies for them. We saw the beef hanging in 
strings on poles as we entered the Gap, and our 
mouths were immediately shaped for it, but I guess 
it was past redemption, at least none of it ever 
got into our mess. 

The prisoners with grounded arms stood on 
the left side of the Harlan road as the 86th entered 
— Company A in advance. The prisoners looked 
quietly upon their captors, showing little or no 
emotion. They consisted of the 64th Virginia In- 
fantry, 62d and 64th North Carolina Infantry, 55th 
Georgia Infantry, Kane's Battery from Knoxville, 
Tennessee, and Barnes' Battery from Georgia. 
Kane 's Battery fired two shots at us without effect 
the evening before the surrender. 

H. E. Parrott, in October, 1907, writing about 
these prisoners, says: ''All of them were raw 
troops and in a bad state of discipline. The 55th 
Georgia was the best of them, and they had ridden 
their Colonel on a rail for some offense shortly be- 
fore our arrival, and he did not resent the humilia- 
tion, but promised to be good. This regiment 
manned Rocky Fort on the Harlan road, a few hun- 
dred yards beyond where the 86th was halted dur- 
ing the negotiations for surrender. ' ' 



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The details of the negotiations that lead up to 
the surrender of the Gap were substantially as 
follows : 

General Shackleford, from the southern side of 
the Gap, had first demanded its surrender on the 
7th, and followed it up that night by burning their 
grist mill, located part way up the southern side 
of the Gap on the eastern side of the main winding 
road, and below the old Boone's Trace. On tlie 8th 
he demanded it again, being refused on both occa- 
sions. On the 8th and 9th De Courcy, from the 
northern side, demanded its surrender, while Gen- 
eral Burnside was doing the same trick from the 
southern side on the 9th, where he had just arrived 
from Knoxville that morning. Thus it appears that 
General Frazer, poor devil, must surrender to 
three commanders or irrigate the Cumberland 
Mountain slopes with human blood. In this 
dilemma, and while he was laboriously and con- 
scientiously trying to solve this distracting prob- 
lem. Colonel Lemert very unexpectedly came to his 
assistance in a unique and satisfactory way. 

Our Colonel led the advance in the arranged 
attack upon the fortress which commanded the Har- 
lan road, and while in position awaiting the signal 
to give battle, a flag of truce came in along that 

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road. The Colonel conducted the three officers into 
a ravine where they could see nothing of our army 
or its movements, and sent the communication to 
De Courcy for answer. While the orderly was 
gone with the message, a desultory conversation en- 
sued among the officers, which revealed the fact 
that one of the Confederates— a Lieutenant— was 
from Chicago, and thirsty. He inquired, with some 
concern in his voice and manner, ' ' Haven 't you any 
of that stuff which giveth color when it moveth 
itself aright?" The Colonel was touched by the 
anxiety in the good officers 's appeal, and obligingly 
sent back to Regimental Surgeon Clark for a can- 
teen of bourbon, which was promptly borne to the 
group. Like a good host, the Colonel joined, more 
or less, in the toasts that went around, but the im- 
portance of the military situation (he afterward 
explained) prohibited his taking enough of the 
stuff to wet his throat below the collar button ; but 
then, you know, he always wore his collar button 
low. 

The second coming of the flag of truce was ac- 
companied by five officers instead of three. Again 
Surgeon Clark was requisitioned for an increased 
quantity of the Kentucky beverage for use down 
in the little ravine. It was at this stage of bourbon 



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consumption that De Courcy, sniffing an uncorked 
flask somewhere, came rushing to the front line to 
locate the demand for whiskey. He button-holed the 
Colonel, took him aside and interrogated him par- 
ticularly concerning the banqueted guests. When 
explanations had been fully made, De Courcy arose 
in his saddle with great dignity and said, ' ' Johnny, 
fill up tlie bowl. Fill them up to the ears if you 
can." Thereupon one canteen of the mellowing 
influence was sent to General Frazer, the com- 
mander-in-chief of the Confederates at the Gap. 
Soon after, the General decided that it would be 
wisdom on his part to capitulate ; the Confederate 
flag was lowered and white flags shown conspicu- 
ously. 

The little banquet above described was prob- 
ably a large factor in clinching the resolution 
already forming in the mind of the commander of 
the garrison to give up and end the anxiety without 
bloodshed; for when we took possession of the 
prisoners, the General was found in his tent (near 
the spoiled jerked beef) , lying on a bench with snuff 
smeared over his face, snoring stentoriously, as 
drunk as a patriot. Our hospitality covered less 
than two gallons of liquid refreshment, and may 
have been instrumental in saving many lives. 



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Colonel de Courcy referred to it laconically the next 
morning by remarking, '^The whiskey worked." 

Colonel de Courcy took upon himself and his 
command the honor of the capture (and I think de- 
servedly so), and marched the 86th Regiment into 
the Gap and took possession; but General Burn- 
side, with his staff, rode up into the place just be- 
fore sunset, and saw fit to place him under arrest 
for insubordination, and we saw him no more. 

Colonel de Courcy* was a good officer, a noble 
officer, an intelligent officer, an ambitious officer. So 
tenaciously did he pursue the objects of his am- 
bition that sometimes he infringed strict military 
etiquette and was censured, as in this case. That 
he should have kept his position north of the Gap 
until General Burnside had marched four times 
our distance and taken possession, military cour- 
tesy required; but that he should have climbed 
into that stronghold and surrounded the prisoners 
as soon as the first white flag peeped over the 
enemy's parapet, military precision and coimnon 
sense both demanded. 

The correspondence between De Courcy and 
Frazer, in effecting this surrender, is here ap- 
pended : 

*A sketch from the London Illustrated News, giving the main facts of this 
gallant officer's life, will be found on page 95. 

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COL. JOHN F. DE COURCY 

Our Brigade Commander until September 9, 1S63 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

"September 8, 1863. General Frazer, com- 
manding Confederate forces, Cumberland Gap. 
Sir : I have the honor to request you to surrender 
yourself and all the troops under your command 
unconditionally. The Gap is now completely in- 
vested, and a short or protracted resistance on your 
part will only cause a useless, and therefore cruel, 
loss of life. You may rest assured that if you 
deem it your duty for the above reasons to sur- 
render to my forces, I shall likewise deem it my 
duty to see that yourself and all your command 
are treated with due respect and consideration. I 
have the honor to be, sir. Your obedient servant, 
John F. de Courcy, Colonel Commanding U. S. 
forces north of Cumberland Gap. ' ' 

"Headquarters Cumberland Gap, September 
8, 1863. Colonel John F. de Courcy, commanding 
U. S. forces, Kentucky side. Colonel: Your de- 
mand for an unconditional surrender of myself 
and forces is just received. I would state that a 
similar demand has been made on two consecutive 
days by Brigadier General Shackleford on Ten- 
nesee side, both of which I at once declined. I 
would further state that it is customary in matters 
of this kind to know the numbers demanding sur- 
render, which I ask you to furnish. I would also 
ask in connection with the above, that some time 
may be fixed for a definite answer, say 12.00 m., to- 
morrow, as none was stated in your communica- 
tion. I am. Colonel, Very respectfully, John W. 
Frazer, Brigadier General." 

' ' September 8th, General Frazer, commanding- 
ing forces, Cumberland Gap. Sir: I should not 



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have the slightest hesitation in stating to you (as 
you appear to request) the number of troops under 
my immediate command, but cannot comply with 
your request for reasons arising out of considera- 
tions other than those connected with your defense 
of the Gap. I once more assure you that in asking 
ing you to surrender, I was and am actuated by 
pure motives of common humanity, and I do firmly 
and really believe that your defense of the Gap, 
however bravely and scientifically it may l^e con- 
ducted, will and must have only one result. I honor 
and respect above all men a brave and good soldier, 
and have ever, and shall endeavor to treat in that 
honorable mode which such a soldier merits ; and 
for this reason if for no other, I feel anxious to 
spare nothing which may prevent a cruel and 
totally needless eifusion of blood. You may have 
remarked that I did not allow my artillery to reply 
to yours this day. I shall place tomorrow some of 
it in position, but will not open fire before twelve 
o'clock, as you have requested. I hope, however, 
that long before that hour you will have sur- 
rendered. Should you agree to do so, please re- 
port tomorrow to me by meeting me on the Harlan 
road, sending at the same time another flag of truce 
on the road you met me on today. I have the honor 
to be, sir, Your obedient servant, John F. de 
Courcy, Colonel Commanding U. S. forces." 

' ' September 9th. General Frazier : It is now 
12.30 p. m., and I shall not open fire until 2.00 p. m., 
unless before that time you shall have struck all 
your flags and hoisted in their stead the white flags 
in token of surrender. I deem this further hour 



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and a half, which I grant for a suspension of hostil- 
ities, as sufficient time to enable you to have re- 
ceived General Burnside's decision. I have the 
honor to be, sir. Your obedient servant, John F. de 
Courcy, Colonel Commanding U. S. forces north 
of Gap." 

This ended the recorded correspondence, and 
following some details under a flag of truce, the 
surrender was made about four o'clock in the after- 
noon. 

I believe this capture one of the most strategic 
of the War of the Rebellion. By nature the Gap 
is a very strong fortification, and could only be 
taken by a ruse or a protracted siege. Colonel de 
Courcy was well acquainted with the place, having 
been there with Federal General Morgan when he 
occupied it a year before, hence his deceptive work 
from the time we left Camp Nelson until the sur- 
render was effected. While trying to keep the scant 
numbers of our troops a profound secret, he did 
it in such a way as to make Frazer feel that an 
avalanche or a torrent was bearing down upon him 
from the north with resistless force. At General 
Frazer 's court martial this belief was given as a 
part of the testimony. In Frazer 's mind this be- 
lief was a conviction. Hence, the weakness of his 
defense of the Gap. 



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Sketched by A. M. Willard. 



THE EIGHTY-SIXTH REGIMENT ENTERING 
CUMBERLAND GAP 

From the northern side, by the Harlan Road, and taking possession at its 
surrender, September 9, 1S63. 





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VIEW OF CUMBERLAND GAP 



From the southern side, showing Brigade and Regimental Headquarters 
in the foreground. 



HiSTOKY OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Cumberland Gap is a cut in the Cuinbeiiand 
Mountains, well supplied with pure water from ex- 
haustless springs, one of which being strong enough 
to turn a mill with ease. In the center of the Gap 
at that time stood a square stone marking the 
corners, or rather lines of three states— Kentucky, 
Virginia and Tennessee. It was about 16 inches 
square by 20 inches high above the earth, and of a 
dark brown color. I am informed that now this 
stone has been so chipped by relic vandals that it 
is sharp as a peg and its symmetry destroyed. Out 
of this Gap center ran two roads northerly, known 
as the Kentucky road, and the Harlan road. The 
direction of the first was nearly north, toward Bar- 
boursville, while the latter sldrted the mountain 
range easterly. From the Tennessee side of the 
Gap diverged three roads: The Virginia road, 
easterly up the Powell Valley; the Tazewell road, 
running about due south across the Powell Valley 
and river, and the Jacksboro road, skirting the foot 
of the mountain chain westerly on through Jacks- 
boro. 

On the southern side of the Jacksboro road 
flowed a little stream of water westerly, having its 
head in the Virginia mountain springs, and cutting 
the Tazewell road as it purled along past head- 

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quarters and regimental barracks. Colonel Lem- 
ert's headquarters as Post and Brigade Com- 
mander (appointed by General Burnside at the time 
Colonel de Courcy was removed), and our regi- 
mental headquarters were situated over the stream 
in buildings on or near the Tazewell road. The 
regiment was quartered a long half-mile from head- 
quarters out the Jacksboro road, in log cabins built 
up and down the mountain-side, in rows of seven or 
eight, arranged after the manner of the camp at 
Valley Forge, in the war of the American Revolu- 
tion. Company A was located in the row farthest 
out. Company F next, and so on in regimental 
order, excepting Companies C and I, which were 
located on the other side of the Gap, and picketed 
the Harlan road and vicinity. Late in the fall. 
Company D was moved half way up the Gap road 
and quartered there in tents. 

This Gap is historic ground. In 1769, the old 
pioneer, hunter and Indian fighter, Daniel Boone, 
passed through it from Powell Valley by a trail 
made by wild beasts and their hunters. He passed 
through it often afterward, blazing the trees as a 
guide to his path for others who might follow, and 
to facilitate his own return. This trail was first 
called *' Boone's Trace," and grew into that long 

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sloping way that wound around the Virginia 
mountain side, passing above the big spring and off 
northerly through the Gap. Seven years after 
Boone first passed through, the Trace had been im- 
proved until it had grown to the importance of a 
wagon road, and was known as the "Wilderness 
Road," now the "Old Virginia Road," and the 
"Kentucky Road" made continuous. 

All the emigration from Virginia and North 
Carolina to Kentucky up to 1785, passed through 
this bite in the mountain. In 1779 Boone moved 
his family through it, and with them came one 
Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the man of the 
same name, who, in the Nation 's great stiTiggle, was 
President of this Republic and our Commander-in- 
Chief. With this little caravan came two small 
cannon, for use of the fort at Boonesboro, the first 
that ever blessed or cursed grand old Cumberland 
Gap. Boone, when hunting, often made long stays 
at Flat Lick, where the buffaloes roamed in great 
herds, and spent much time on the banks of Rock- 
castle River. Our regiment became well acquainted 
with this river, and we marched nearly in Boone's 
footsteps to Flat Ijick, where we also went into 
camp for several days. Boone was a kind of John 

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the Baptist to the 86th Regiment in eastern Ken- 
tucky. 

The prisoners were guarded on the southern 
side of the Gap until the 11th, when they were 
started north in charge of Companies A, B and H 
of our regiment, three companies of the 129th, and 
three companies of the 9th Tennessee Cavalry, all 
under command of Jo. Parsons, Colonel of the 9th. 
The camp for the first day's march was made on 
the Kentucky road, near the old Moss Tavern, 
some four miles south of the Cumberland River. 
This night the cavalry guarded the prisoners. Next 
day several escaped prisoners were returned to us 
by loyal mountaineers, to our surprise (for we had 
not missed them), and we were instructed to be 
more vigilant in the future. We passed near one 
prisoner's home, and he was given a certain time 
by- Colonel Parsons to take leave of his family and 
return into custody, upon the pledge of his honor. 
He kept his pledge. 

Saturday, September 12th, we marched four 
miles to Cumberland Ford, where we took break- 
fast and dinner together, and then continued on to 
Flat Lick where we stopped for the night, the 129th 
standing guard. Sunday, we put 16 miles behind 
us, stopping at Gum Spring for the night, the 



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86th standing guard. Thus alternately, each regi- 
ment took its turn guarding the prisoners at night 
— the other two regiments being the watchful es- 
cort for the succeeding day's march. Under our 
care were about 2,250 of these unfortunates with the 
butternut-colored clothes, and while they were 
fairly orderly, they had to be watched every min- 
ute, and 500 active guards had their hands full to 
prevent escapes while the column was in motion. 
At night they occupied much less space and were 
much more easily guarded. The guarding through 
the march was done by putting the prisoners be- 
tween two lines of our soldiers extending along the 
roadsides, with heavy van and rear guards. Then 
the order to march was given, and the men forming 
the lines took distance of six or seven feet and 
maintained it throughout the day. 

Monday, September 14th, we marched 10 miles, 
encamping at Laurel Bridge. 

September 15th, marched 11 miles to Camp 
Pitman. 

September 16th, marched 12 miles, encamping 
on the east bank of the Rockcastle River. 

September 17th, we marched 12 miles, stop- 
ping for the night two miles north of Mt. Vernon, 
hy a small stream of water. Here, just as we were 

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surrounding the prisoners for the night, a private 
of Company E of the 129th Regiment, accidentally 
shot himself up through the shoulder as he brought 
his gun to an order arms, and died that night. We 
buried him with military honors inside the field 
near the road. On our return march we found the 
grave open and the body removed. 

September 18th, we marched 13 miles, passing 
through Crab Orchard and camping two miles 
north of the town. Here a woman Samaritan fed 
the jDrisoners all the provisions she had with her, 
and invited those still remaining hungry to her 
house for supper. They gave her three cheers and 
remained in the bull pen. 

September 19th, we marched 18 miles to Camp 
Dick Robinson. ]\Iany soldiers, both Union and 
Confederate, are buried here. 

Sunday, September 20th, we marched eight 
miles to Camp Nelson, which place we had left just 
one month previously; a fair month's work for 
$13.00 and a few rations. 

Monday, September 21st, we marched 19 miles 
through Nicholasville to Lexington, where the 
prisoners were turned into a large tobacco ware- 
house, or some such building of brick, and left in 
charge of some convalescent soldiers there who 

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CAPT. JOHN H. REID 
Company D 



Ohio V^olunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

would take them north by train. ''We had fought 
the good fight, we had finished the course, we had 
kept the faith, ' ' we delivered the goods. 

The conduct of the prisoners was generally- 
fine. Those from Georgia were not inclined to be 
communicative, but the North Carolina troops and 
Kane's Battery were splendid. Among the latter 
were Lieutenant White (a cousin of Colonel Jo. 
Parsons), and Sullivan and Billy Allen— mighty 
agreeable boys at all times, who swore they would 
treat us as kindly as we did them when they got 
us captured. The political feeling in Lexington, 
the home city of the great statesman, Henry Clay, 
and the great rebel, John H. Morgan, seemed to be 
about equally divided. Many favors were shown 
the prisoners here, especially by the fair sex, some 
of whom lavished enough alleged kisses on a rebel 
major, as we passed him into his prison, to have 
drawn a felon to a head. 

We enjoyed Lexington a few days before we 
returned. At the cemetery we admired the monu- 
ment erected to the memory of Henry Clay. It is 
a shaft rising 130 feet, surmounted by a nine-foot 
statue. Here we again find the Union and Con- 
federate dead both buried in the same cemetery, 
separated in this instance by a little ravine. We 
also visited Ashland, Clay's old plantation. The 



HisTOEY OP Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

place was apportioned between his three living 
sons. James built a new house nearer the road 
than the old mansion, but is a rebel exile. Thomas 
inherited the eastern portion of the estate, and at 
that time was minister to some Central American 
State. He had one son in each army. John in- 
herited the southern part of the estate and was 
finely situated, his aged mother living with him. 
John was then in New York with his fast horses. 

We went to the old house, saw the old colored 
mammy who had lived there 30 years. She was 
offered her freedom, but said they must keep her 
now, for she was too old to go away and earn a 
living. We ate of her corn bread, and she gave us 
fruit, and then we went over to the race track, sat 
on a bench overlooking it, and moralized on the 
Clay family. Henry Clay, junior, was mortally 
wounded in the Mexican War at the battle of 
Buena Vista. He went down carrying his coun- 
try's colors, and an old Mexican war song makes 
him say: 

' ' My father, comrade, you will tell about this bloody 

fray, 
My country's standard, say to him, was safe with 

me today ; 
A pillow now I've made of it on which to lay my 

head— 
A winding-sheet you'll make of it when I am with 

the dead." 



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James died the succeeding February, in To- 
ronto, Canada, a veritable "man without a coun- 
try." Ashland is located one and one-half miles 
east of Lexington, on the south side of the Rich- 
mond Pike. 

Friday, September 25th, the infantry com- 
manded by Major Kraus, went to Nicholasville by 
rail, while the cavalry, under Colonel Parsons, re- 
mained in Lexington to recruit. On the 26th, 
we marched to Camp Nelson, where we drew cloth- 
ing and supplies. On the 28th, we started on foot 
for the Gap, where we arrived without incident on 
October 5th. Each day on this march we started 
early, and after covering about ten miles, took 
breakfast, rested through the heat of the day, then 
marched another ten miles in the late afternoon. 
The Major said he was showing us boys how Bona- 
parte marched his troops into Russia. 

Meantime at the Gap things were shaping 
themselves as follows : General Burnside, on Sep- 
tember 10th, had given Colonel Lemert command 
of the post and brigade. This threw the command 
of our regiment on Lieutenant Colonel McFarland, 
who, leaving for Ohio on the 19th, on government 
business, the command devolved upon Captain 
Lindsley, as the Senior Captain not on detached 



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duty. On the return of Major Kraus from Lexing- 
ton, October 5tli, lie assumed command until 
November 5th, the date of McFarland 's return. On 
September 12th, Company K was detached from 
the regiment and sent to Captain Neil, in command 
of the 22d Independent Ohio Battery, for artillery 
instruction. 

The 86th Regiment picketed the immediate 
Gap and the approaches ; that is, the Gap proper, 
the Harlan road, the pinnacle east of the Gap, the 
Virginia road, the Tazewell road, and the Jacks- 
boro road. During our stay at the Gap there were 
many changes in these duties, and we were often 
moved from one place to another. Aside from these 
duties we had to police our quarters, repair the 
roads, bury the dead from the Smallpox Ambu- 
lance-Hospital, located a half-mile west of our bar- 
racks, back pff the road, and drive away or capture 
Confederate soldiers when they approached our 
neighborhood. These encounters were sometimes 
serious affairs, involving different commands in 
the brigade, resulting in numbers being killed, 
wounded and taken prisoners on both sides, and 
yet, by vigilance, our possession of the Gap was 
held secure and never seriously questioned. Here 
I record one of the many brushes we had with the 

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enemy. It is from the reliable pen of Adjutant 
Parrott. He says: 

''On November 13th, Colonel Lemert sent a 
foraging expedition 12 miles up the Virginia road, 
consisting of 21 wagons with an escort of 31 men. 
The train started at 5.00 a. m., and at ten o'clock we 
got word that they had been attacked by a force of 
70 men under Captains Dove and Hurd. The 
Colonel went to the rescue with 100 men of the 4th 
Batallion Ohio Cavalry, and arriving just as our 
force had surrendered, charged the enemy with 
sabers and routed them completely, recapturing the 
train. The enemy's loss was three killed, seven 
wounded and nine captured. The casualty on our 
side was the Colonel's black mare." 

This mare was a beautiful, intelligent and 
noble animal- the apple of the Colonel's eye, and 
he felt the loss keenly. She is very faithfully pre- 
served to us in A. M. Willard's sketch of our regi- 
ment taking possession of Cumberland Gap, where 
she and her rider are placed in the foreground (see 
page 54). Willard was a sergeant in Company C, 
and often carried the colors. He is now one of the 
most famous artists this country ever produced in 
the line of strong and heroic representations, such 
as his "Yankee Doodle," "Minute Men of the 
Eevolution, ' ' and * ' Jim Bludsoe. ' ' 



History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

In picketing the pinnacle— the highest point 
of the bluff northeast of the Gap— we had to march 
five miles from our quarters, winding and zig- 
zagging about to reach it. There were three re- 
liefs of us, each one remaining on duty 24 hours. 
Besides picketing, we were to act as guard to 
the squad with the signal gun located there. This 
gun was always ready to sound the alarm at the 
least sign of approaching danger. It was a good 
and efficient cannon with only one known weakness : 
it had a habit of going off at half-cock, especially 
in the night when sleep was sweet to us ; then the 
' ' long roll ' ' routed us out and we had to ' ' fall in ' ' 
and stand in line until the danger was located, 
which generally proved to be down about Knoxville 
or Chattanooga. 

In crawling up this circuitous route to assume 
our duties beside this much cursed old alarm clock, 
the elasticity of step and the hilarious flow of con- 
versation were buried at the foot of the mountain, 
and the only conversation we ever heard was a 
weak imitation, pumped out in short breaths, about 
something to eat ; for we sometimes had no supper 
at night, and were not sure of breakfast in the 
morning. 



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And this is no fairy story, for Cumberland 
Gap was a long distance from any base of supplies, 
and as everything had to be transported by teams, 
and the roads often barely passable, it can readily 
be seen that it must take good engineering to keep 
the wolf out of the camp, and with all our energy 
and urgency, the gaunt beast's shadow hung over 
us continually. 

At one of our reunions since the war. Captain 
Briggs, of Company H, said on this subject: 

"In the early part of November, the rebels 
tried to starve us out by coming between us and our 
supplies, which we were then trying to get from 
either Cincinnati or Knoxville; and they came so 
near doing it, that for ten days we were reduced to 
corn in the ear (which we foraged for out the 
Virginia road), and a few screenings which the 
boys scraped up in that old water mill near the foot 
of the mountain on the southern side, which Gen- 
eral Shackleford's men burned two nights before 
the surrender. The corn we parched, grinding 
some and eating the balance without any pulveriz- 
ing. The screenings we made into a stiff batter, 
without salt, and baked into a chunk of bread, or 
cake, or concrete, or something. Some of the boys 
sent samples home (they said for whetstones), and 

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gave vivid pictures of our bill of fare. But relief 
came gradually. The boys picked up some rice 
from some unknown place, and we grew fat on 
a poor steer that we found stuck in a quagmire in 
the main road leading up into the Gap. It was the 
old biblical story of the woman and the cruse of 
oil— always hungry, but never entirely forsaken. 
And let me say, while provisions is the topic of 
conversation, that I think the sulphur spring water 
on the Virginia side of the Gap is the finest water 
on the face of tlie earth. ' ' 

But mixed with our hard fare was the com- 
fort of good barracks. True, the original creatures, 
with a strong love of home and soldier society, were 
there in force and to stay, but the logs and the roof 
made an enclosure, and we were satisfied. These 
huts were built of logs, well daubed, with the regu- 
lation backwoods mud-and-stick chimney at one 
end on the outside. Each had one clapboard door, 
one 12 by 12 inch window, with or without glass, 
and no floor but the hard packed earth. Their 
dimensions were about 12 by 14 feet, accommodat- 
ing 12 or 14 persons each. Our firewood was pro- 
cured by chopping down a tree on the mountain- 
side, trimming it up smoothly, and then ' ' snaking ' ' 
it down to our barrack town with a rush. Some- 



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times we missed the end barrack, but more often 
we knocked the stuffing out of the mud chimney. 

On October 15th, Colonel Lemert notified Mrs. 
Patterson, of "Holly Hill," adjacent to head- 
quarters, that he would take j^ossession of her 
residence for a hospital in one week. What 
assurance do we have of keeping and enjoying a 
home in war time and in the army's path? 

October 21st, Major Kraus ordered 250 men 
of the regiment under Captain Field, to repair the 
Kentucky road from Cumberland Gap to Cumber- 
land Ford, a distance of about 14 miles. We were 
out the best part of a week, uselessly, for that road 
could not be improved in the rainy months of 
October and November, though the case was des- 
perate, and our very lives depended much upon its 
condition. It was the main artery to transportation 
of our supplies, and when it refused to perform its 
decreed function, we were in deplorable want. 

Robert Appleby, private in Company K, de- 
tails an experience as teamster on the great thor- 
oughfare, which illustrates the hardships and un- 
certainty of transportation at that time. He says 
he was sent with a six-mule team, in company with 
thirty other wagons, to Nicholasville for provisions 
and clothing. That when on the return trip they 



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ROBERT APPLEBY 
Company K 

The man who hung his mules up on Cumberland River bridge. 



Ohio Volunteer Infantey, 1863-64 

had come to the bridge which we had built over the 
Cumberland River near the ford, the weather 
being rainy, his locked-wheel wagon skidded and 
plunged into the river, which was bank full, and 
dragged the mules with it. The hind mules went 
down into the water, the swing chain caught on 
the bridge and held the next team suspended, while 
the lead mule (one had died) braced its feet against 
the bridge rail and hung on until Appleby could 
cut the hamestring and release it. Then he pried 
the swing chain loose from the bridge and dropped 
the suspended team into the river, from which, by 
swimming, he rescued the four mules and the 
wagon of clothing. Repairing the broken wagon 
tongue, he continued on his way to the Gap, four- 
teen miles distant. This was Tuesday, the 3d of 
November, and he assures me that the road was 
almost impassable, and that it took their best elf orts 
to reach the Gap by Saturday evening. 

On November 12th, we were paid off in full to 
the first of the month. On November 16th, our 
regiment was inspected by Major Kraus, muster- 
ing and inspecting officer for the brigade. 

On November 18th, the 86th Regiment (ex- 
cept Companies C, I and K, on detached duty), 
the 129th Regiment, and the 4th Battalion 0. V. C, 



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were ordered to leave their quarters and go to the 
mountain top. On the 20th, we were established in 
the rifle pits on the top of the mountain, eastward 
of the Gap, in readiness to repulse the enemy, 
should they appear. Burnside and Longstreet had 
locked horns around Knoxville, and the left wing 
of our army had fallen back from Clinch River to 
the Gap. We remained on the mountain four or 
five days, returning to our barracks when the emer- 
gency had passed. One gallon of whiskey to every 
40 men was issued to us one day on the mountuain, 
which was the only time that Uncle Sam ever 
quenched our thirst that way. There was a cold 
rain a:t the time and the stuff was really seasonable 
at that altitude. We had our little dog tents with 
us up there, which protected us fairly well from 
the storm without, and we experienced little incon- 
venience and no suffering. 

After our return from the mountain top, a 
brigade order, dated November 25th, was issued, 
settling and defining the picket duties of the dif- 
ferent commands as follows: 

''North of Gap (except the Harlan road), 16th 
Illinois Cavalry; Harlan road and the Heights 
east of the Gap, 86th 0. V. I ; Tazewell and Jacks- 
boro roads, the 129th 0, V. I. ; Virginia road and 



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the Heights west of the Gap, the 115th Indiana 
Infantry. ' ' 

On November 30th, Colonel Lemert reports for 
duty in his command as follows : 

86th 0. V. 1 328 

129th 0. V. 1 559 

115th Indiana Infantry 668 

22d Ohio Battery 113 

1st Tennessee Battalion 68 

16th Illinois Cavalry 542 

2 Companies of Infantry serving as 

Artillery 146 

Total 2,424 

And 21 pieces of Artillery 

Christmas and New Year's day were much as 
other days to the regiment, though the latter was 
so intensely cold (six degrees above zero in the 
valley with us), that all veterans of the war remem- 
ber it as a kind of landmark, or rather weather- 
mark, in their army life. 

On the evening of January 6th, General Grant 
and members of his staff stopped at Brigade Head- 
quarters, remaining until the next afternoon. The 
General was then commanding the Military Divis- 
ion of the Mississippi, which embraced the de- 



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CAPT. JOAB SQUIRE 
Company F 





CAPT. MILLIKAN 
Company G 



CAPT. ERASTUS W. BRIGGS 
Company H 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

partments of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the 
Tennessee. He had come from Chattanooga up the 
Tennessee River to the mouth of the Clinch River, 
thence to Knoxville and Strawberry Plains by rail, 
where he took horse for Lexington, stopping a day 
with us on the way. His horseback ride was for 
the purpose of ascertaining the condition of the 
roads and the prospect of their usefulness for mili- 
tary purposes in the spring. The very severe 
weather we just had, made the main road through 
the Gap a glare of ice, and so impassable as to make 
it an object lesson which the General could not 
well overlook. To proceed on his journey, he and 
his attendants had to ride a mile or more east on 
the Virginia road until they reached a place where 
they could reverse back on the old ' * Boone Trace, ' ' 
which would enable them to wind around and up 
the Virginia mountain-side and on through the 
Gap. When about to mount his horse after dinner, 
the General hesitated a moment, turned his head 
with a determined gesture as he surveyed the pin- 
nacle, and smiled at us boys who were bunched near 
him, as much as to say, "Pretty tough getting up 
there." But he said nothing vocally. 

On the 16th day of January, 1864, we left the 
Gap for Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel McFarland being 



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in command. We marched by easy stages to 
Nicholasville, where we took a train of box cars for 
Cincinnati. At Nicholasville a slave-owner from 
Barboursville way claimed and demanded ' ' Louie, ' ' 
one of the many colored people who were striving 
to get to the north and freedom under the protective 
wing of our regiment. Now Louie, being a Ken- 
tucky negro and not entitled to his freedom, if a 
slave, because Kentucky was not a seceding state, 
the man's claim was good if he could prove prop- 
erty; but McFarland questioned the validity of 
his claim, and so we hustled him on the train and 
proceeded on our way. As we approached Lex- 
ington we could see the Provost Guards loading 
their rifles as a warning to the locomotive engineer, 
and also indicating the reception they were prepar- 
ing for us if our conduct was not good. (They 
were a score, and we were 900 with arms.) They 
leveled their guns upon the engineer and com- 
manded him to stop the train, which he did without 
any demurring. The engine was uncoupled and 
sent a hundred rods up the road where the en- 
gineer was ordered to await the pleasure of the 
Provost Marshal. Then the air was full of argu- 
ment, explanation and diplomacy for a half hour. 
Our commander made a bold and insistent defense 



Ohio Volunteer Infantey, 1863-64 

of the hunted man, who as yet had not been found, 
nor the train searched. McFarland found the law 
against him, and as a last resort stipulated that the 
search must be made a mile or so out of the city 
and away from the mob. And so it was agreed. The 
engine was recalled and attached, and we all got 
aboard and were taken up the road a mile or more. 
Here the search was made and Louie found in the 
car the writer was in. As the owner from Skin 
Creek was leaving the side of the car with his prop- 
erty, some thoughtless or thoughtful private made 
a bound from the side opening in the car and, 
landing fair on the Skin-Creeker's head, bore him 
to the ground. By the time his lamps were prop- 
erly trimmed, the commotion had reached the 
officers, and Adjutant Parrott bore down upon us. 
Drawing his sword in token of authority, he looked 
calmly at us and demanded peace. Instantly the 
avenging spirit was lifted from our hearts, and in 
tranquil mood we silently sung, 

' ' Happy the man with heart upright, 
Who harbors not revengeful spite. 
Who harbors not revengeful spite. 
But feels his neighbor's pain." 

Again we loaded ourselves upon the cars, and 
sped away in stock-train time toward our home 




A TYPICAL GROUP OF COMPANY A 

As they looked on returning home. 
Back row, Sam Holland, Jo Zimmerman, Love Packard. 
Front row, J. N. Ashburn, W. D. Courtney 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

state. Amid the floating ice we were ferried across 
the Ohio River into Cincinnati on the 24th. Here 
we were quartered in some market house for two 
days, awaiting transportation, then went to Cleve- 
land by passenger train, sleeping in our old bar- 
racks on the night of January 27th. 

The 86th Regiment was mustered out of ser- 
vice at Camp Cleveland on February 10, 1864, paid 
off three days later, when the troops immediately 
decamped for their individual homes, located 
throughout the northern and central portions of 
the state. 

Thus ended the service of a regiment which 
was universally respected by the whole brigade, 
and by every Confederate who ever faced it. Other 
regiments saw longer service and greater slaughter, 
and we are happy to give them their full meed of 
praise, but none proved more loyal to the cause 
for which we were doing battle, none more obstinate 
in defending it, or more unflinching in danger, or 
more watchful on duty, or had better officers or 
truer men under those officers, than our own 
86th Regiment. Every company was well officered, 
well drilled, well disciplined and full of enthusi- 
astic patriotism. They loved their commissioned 

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officers, and their Colonel stood, and still stands, 
upon an elevated pedestal in every comrade 's heart. 
Our loss by death during this campaign was 
42. They died in a noble cause. All this regiment's 
dead and their kin have the interest and sympathy 
of all this regiment 's living. Those who have laid 
down their burden here and mustered on the other 
shore— the vanguard of our regiment— shall ever 
embellish the Hero List of the 86th Regiment, 
0. V. I. Peace to their ashes and flowers for their 
graves as long as God permits this Republic to 
exist. 



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Sketch of Eighty-Sixth O. V. I.* 

By M. J. Sloan 

This regiment was organized June and July, 
1863, at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, by Colonel Wilson 
C. Lemert— the Major of the first Ohio regiment 
of this number. The companies were raised in 
different parts of the state as follows : Company 
A, Youngstown; Company B, Marysville; Com- 
pany C, Wellington; Company D, Wayne and 
Wood Counties; Company E, Edgerton and 
Stryker ; Company F, Tontogany and Gilead ; Com- 
pany G, Trumbull, Lake, Wayne, and Medina 
Counties ; Company H, Wauseon ; Company I, Tif- 
fin ; Company K, Oxford. 

July 22d, the regiment received marching 
orders to assist in the capture of the rebel guerrilla, 
John Morgan, and his company, then moving 
through southern Ohio. Arriving at Zanesville, 
Ohio, the left wing of the regiment, including 
Company G and four other companies, under Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Robert W. McFarland, were sent 

*Comrade M.J. Sloan some time ago prepared this sketch, which I find so 
meritorious that I here include the portions of it which I have not already 
covered in my text.— J. N. A. 

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down the Muskingum River by boat and met an 
attack of Morgan's forces at Eaglesport, July 23d. 
Morgan 's men were well mounted and soon made a 
hasty retreat. Colonel McFarland and his men 
then returned to Zanesville by boat and moved on 
after the rest of the regiment which had gone for- 
ward to Cambridge. Part of the regiment con- 
tinued directly after Morgan 's command, while the 
rest hastened by rail to Bellaire to prevent the 
enemy from crossing the river there. The regiment 
had the honor of being one of the organizations 
that stopped Morgan's raid by capturing him and 
all his command near Salineville, Columbiana 
County, Ohio. Company G and other companies 
took the prisoners back to Columbus, where they 
were placed in the Camp Chase prison, and the 
regiment returned to its camp on July 28th. 

On July 31st, four companies were ordered 
to Columbus to quell a riot. 

After the surrender of the Gap, the 86th Regi- 
ment was stationed there, doing garrison duty, and 
actively engaged in all the military operations in 
that vicinity till the close of its term of service. The 
base of supplies was more than 150 miles away, 
and the garrison was compelled to subsist off the 
surrounding country. Both armies had before 

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marched and counter-marched over the same ter- 
ritory, and forage was scarce. This made it neces- 
sary to go long distances for supplies. The whole 
surrounding country was rough and mountainous, 
and alive with rebel guerrillas. Encounters with 
them were of almost daily occurrence, and night 
attacks were not unfrequent. The regiment never 
received more than quarter rations for months. 
Proper clothing could not be had, and the men suf- 
fered from winter weather, for want of food and 
clothes. 

January 16, 1864, the regiment left Cumber- 
land Gap to be mustered out. After seven days of 
a fatiguing winter march, it reached Nicholasville, 
Ky. From this place it returned by rail to Camp 
Cleveland, and was mustered out of service Febru- 
ary 10, 1864, having served nearly two months 
overtime at the front. 

No short term regiment did more valiant ser- 
vice than the Second 86th 0. V. I. In Whitelaw 
Reid's work, ''Ohio in the War," in Volume 2, 
Page 658, in connection with what is said about 
the 129th Regiment that belonged to the same 
brigade with the 86th Ohio Regiment, Mr. Reid 
states as follows: 



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' ' The graves which mark ahnost every hill-top 
and valley of that section of East Tennessee, attest 
the severity and sufferings of the men who passed 
the terrible winter of 1863 in those inhospitable 
regions. The 129th, however, lost but few in com- 
parison with other regiments serving there, 
although exposed as much, if not more, than any 
other. The 86th Ohio lost heavily." 

It has been suggested that the number of our 
losses was not great, but it may be said truthfully, 
as recorded in the military record and history of 
Ohio, that we lost as heavily as some three-year 
regiments. While it is sometimes said that ''com- 
parisons are odious," yet, that the truth may be 
known and understood as to the great sufferings 
and death from service in this 86th Ohio Regiment, 
we will quote from the Roll of Honor of the follow- 
ing regiments : 

The 3d 0. V. I. in three years lost exactly the 
same number of men as this 86th Ohio Regiment. 
The 5th 0. V. I., a three-year regiment, lost 10 more 
than the 86th. The 6th 0. V. I., a three-year regi- 
ment, lost two more than the 86th, The 7th 0. V. L, 
a three-year-regiment, and said to be the banner 
regiment of Ohio, lost but 23 more than the 86th. 
The 8th 0. V. I., a three-year regiment, lost 30 



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more men. The 9th O. V. I., a three-year regiment, 
lost five more men. The 10th 0. V. I., a three-year 
regiment, lost 11 men less than this 86th regiment ; 
so that when we have in mind that this 86th Regi- 
ment served but eight months, and their losses are 
as great, or nearly as great, and in some instances 
greater than a three-year regiment, it shows their 
great privation and suffering and arduous service, 
although never engaged in any great battle. 

The value of the services to the Nation of a 
regiment cannot be measured by the length of time 
of service or the number of battles in which it was 
engaged alone, as seen in the history of this regi- 
ment. There were as great sacrifices made by the 
men of this 86th Ohio Regiment in eight months as 
some regiments made in three years. 



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The Eighty-Sixth Regiment Society 



The First Reunion of this regiment was held in 
the City Hall at Buffalo, at the time of the National 
Encampment, August 24, 1897. It was the result 
of a call made by Comrades Romeo H. Freer and 
Merrick J. Sloan, both of Company G. The com- 
rades present were H. Bulger, A. Hageboom, R. L. 
Christy, D. S. Clark, H. N. Baker, Robert Wallace, 
C. B. Stoddard, M. J. Sloan, Henry L. Musser, 
C. H. Angstadt, Peter L. Webb, A. H. Smith, A. H. 
Clark, Henry Hoffman, D. E. Lillibridge, C. D. 
Gass and Francis Franklin. Officers elected for 
ensuing year, H. N. Baker of Company K, presi- 
dent; C. B. Stoddard, vice-president; M. J. Sloan, 
secretary-treasurer. Next reunion to be in Cin- 
cinnati. 

Second Reunion was held in Richelieu Hall, at 
Cincinnati, September 7, 1898. Officers chosen 
were Romeo H. Freer of Company G, president; 
S. E. Wood, vice-president; M. J. Sloan, secretary- 
treasurer. Next reunion by invitation of our 
Colonel, will be at Bucyrus. 

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Third Reunion was held in G. A. R. Hall, at 
Bucyrus, October 5, 1899. Colonel Lemert, Mrs. 
Lemert, their daughter, Mrs. Wise, and the whole 
city united in their efforts to make the occasion 
one of jDleasure and comfort for us. A sumptuous 
reception was held in our honor at the Colonel's 
commodious residence, and the event is remem- 
bered as a white stone planted in the pathway of 
our lives. At this reunion rules were formulated 
for governing the 86th Regiment 0. V. I. Society. 
Officers were chosen: Romeo H. Freer of Com- 
pany G, president; Lieutenant S. E. Wood, Prof. 
H. S. Lehr and H. N. Baker, vice-presidents, and 
M. J. Sloan, secretary-treasurer. Next reunuion 
to be held at Warren, 0. 

No Reunion. For some unrecorded reason, no 
meeting was held in Warren, and there was no 
reunion in 1900. 

Fourth Reunion was held in the chapel of the 
House of Correction, in Cleveland, September 10, 
1901. Officers chosen for ensuing year: Colonel 
W. C. Lemert, president; C. R. Holeton and Wil- 
liam Freeborn, vice-presidents ; M. J. Sloan, secre- 
taiy-treasurer. Next reunion to be held at Wau- 
seon, 0. 



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Fifth Reunion was held in G. A. R. Hall, at 
Wauseon, October 2, 1902. Officers chosen for en- 
suing year, W. W. Dunnipace of Company D, 
president; P. L. Webb, E. W. Blizzard and Jerry 
Benschoter, vice-presidents; M. J. Sloan, secre- 
tary-treasurer. Next reunion will be held at Bowl- 
ing Green, 0. 

Sixth Reunion was held in G. A. R. Hall, at 
Bowling Green, October 8, 1903. Officers chosen: 
P. L. Webb of Company G, president; Hon. W. H. 
Handy, F. W. Bennett and Henry Mease, vice- 
presidents; and M. J. Sloan, secretary-treasurer. 
Next reunion to be held at Warren, 0. 

Seventh Reunion was held in Bell-Hannon 
Post Room, Warren, October 5, 1904. Officers 
chosen: James Schlappi of Company F, presi- 
dent ; J. N. Ashburn, Phil. W. Anschutz and W. R. 
Noyes, vice-presidents; M. J. Sloan, secretary- 
treasurer. Next reunion to be at Delta, 0. 

Eighth Reunion was held in the City Hall at 
Delta, 0., October 11, 1905. Officers chosen, J. S. 
Benschoter of Company F, president ; R. A. Hous- 
ley, Marion Losure and P. L. Webb, vice-presi- 
dents, and M. J. Sloan, secretary-treasurer. Next 
rounion to be at Grand Rapids, O. 

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Ninth Reunion was held in Town Hall at 
Grand Rapids, 0., October 3, 1906. Officers chosen : 
H. T. Brigham of Company H, president; Thomas 
Mikesell, W. W. Dunnipace and P. L. Webb, vice- 
presidents, and M. J. Sloan, secretary-treasurer. 
Next reunion to be at Cumberland Gap. 

Tenth Reunion. — Unable to secure satisfactory 
rates to the Gap, we met at Put-in-Bay, September 
9, 1907. Officers chosen, S. E. Wilcox of Company 
C, president; W. R. Noyes, secretary-treasurer. 
Next at Erie Beach. 

Eleventh Reunion was held in Jefferson School 
Building, Toledo, September 1, 1908, at time of 
National Encampment. Officers chosen, M. J. 
Sloan of Company G, president; W. H. Koppel- 
berger, vice-president; J. N. Ashburn, secretary- 
treasurer. Next reunion to be at Wadsworth, 0. 

Seventy- three members signed the roll— the 
largest number we ever had. 



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Honorary Members 



All mothers, wives, widows, sons and daughters 
of the comrades of this regiment are, by virtue of 
this relationship, our Comrades and Honorary 
Members of our Society. 

Aside from these, the following are Honorary 
Members by special act of the society while in 
session : 

In 1899-Mrs. H. C. Lyman, Bucyrus, O. 
Miss Gertrude Kerr, Bucyrus, 0. 
Miss Hallie Kerr, Bucyrus, 0. 
Miss Rachel Monette, Bucyrus, 
Miss Julia Monette, Bucyrus, 0. 
Miss Irene Faulkner, Bucyrus, 0. 

For untiring efforts for our welfare at third reunion. 

In 1901-T. U. Smith, Mesopotamia, 0. 

Brothet of a dead comrade in Co. G. 

In 1902-W. N. McCurdy, McClure, 0. 

Because of being a comrade in First 86th Regiment. 

In 1904— Henr^^ B. Weir, Warren, 0. 

Brother of Lt. Weir, deceased, of Company G. 

In 1908 -Charles B. Calder, Toledo, 0. 

Arthur S. Oilman, Cleveland, 0. 
Ora J. Fish, Cleveland, 0. 

For assistance in publishing our history. 
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Col. John F. de Gourcy 

Lord Kingsale 

The Right Hon. John Fitzroy de Courcy, 
thirty-first Lord Kingsale, Baron Courcy of 
Courcy, and Baron of Ringrone, in the Peerage of 
Ireland, whose death is just announced from Flor- 
ence, Italy, was born March 30, 1821, the only son 
of Lieutenant-Colonel, the Hon. Gerald de Courcy, 
youngest son of John, twenty-sixth Lord 
Kingsale, and succeeded to the honours at 
the death of his cousin, Michael Conrad, 
thirtieth Lord, on April 15, 1874. He married, May 
10, 1864, Elia Elizabeth, widow of M. Du Bosque 
de Beaumont of Airel, and daughter of C. des 
Francois de Ponchalon, Knight of the Legion of 
Honour, but had no issue. The nobleman whose 
death we record was formerly a Lieutenant in the 
47th Regiment, and served as Major in the Turkish 
Contingent in the Crimea, for which he received the 
Medjidieh of the fourth class. He was afterwards 
Colonel in the United States Federal Army. The 
Lords Kingsale enjoy the hereditary privilege of 
appearing covered in the Royal presence— a priv- 

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ilege granted by King John to Sir John de Courcy, 
Earl of Ulster. Hundreds of years after, when the 
twenty-third Lord wore his hat before King Wil- 
liam III, his Majesty expressed surprise. ' ' Sire, ' ' 
replied the Baron, ''my name is De Courcy. I am 
Lord of Kingsale, in your Majesty's kingdom of 
Ireland ; and the reason of my appearing covered 
in your Majesty's presence is to assert the ancient 
privilege of my family granted to Sir John de 
Courcy, Earl of Ulster, and his heirs, by John, 
King of England."— Lo^c^ow Illustrated News, 
November, 1890. 



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Camp-Fire Stories 



When Wade Hampton was retreating before 
Kilpatrick, in North Carolina, he burned a large 
turpentine factory to prevent the stores from fall- 
ing into our hands. It was a wonderful fire. One 
of the 52d Ohio boys, in describing the fire to his 
friends after he got home, said: ''It was awful. 
The blaze rose as big as a mountain four miles to- 
ward heaven, leaping and roaring like a bursting 
volcano. The heat was so great that we had to 
turn to the right eight miles down Fallis Creek. 
There we crossed at a ford, and the water was so 
infernally hot from the heated air of that mighty 
burning cauldron, that it took the hair off the 
horses' legs as they went through it on a double- 
quick. "-"History of 52d 0. V. I.," by Nixon B. 

Stewart. 

***** 

Theodore Alexander, Commander of Wiley 
Post, Bowling Green, Ohio, at the reunion of our 
regiment at Grand Rapids, Ohio, told of a fellow in 
his regiment who had such long legs that no horse 
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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

he was a good runner. One day in battle the signal 
to retreat was sounded, but the fellow failed to 
hear it and continued to charge straight for the 
enemy's breastworks. Reaching over he grabbed 
a Johnny by the collar and hustled him back to the 
line on a run. He was met by an officer who said, 
''Here, I'll take charge of that prisoner." "No 
you won't," was the reply, "There are thousands 
of them up yonder. If 3^ou want one, go and get 
him as I did mine. ' ' 

At the Grand Review of our Western Army* 
in Washington, at the close of the war, the German 
Minister and Bishop Ames sat together on the re- 
viewing stand. As command after command of 
the old vetrans passed in review, the minister, full 
of admiration for the boys, said to the Bishop that 
an army like that could whip all Europe. And as 
the column continued for hours to show up the same 
stem faced, firm marching heroes, he again faced 
the Bishop and remarked that such an army as that 
could whip the whole world. But when six hours 
of marching brought the end of the procession in 
view, the German caught the Bishop by the hand 



*The Eastern Army was reviewed on Pennsylvania Avenue, May 17th. 
The Western Army was reviewed on Pennsylvania Avenue, May ISth. 



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and shouted to him that such an army as that 
could whip the devil. 

^ * ^F TT ^ 

On the Morgan Raid, we came under the com- 
mand of General Shackleford at Cambridge. By 
his order all the forces pursuing Morgan were 
directed to remount themselves when necessary, 
and to give receipts for horses taken. This order 
was sometimes construed with such a liberal 
license that roosters were shocked off their perches, 
and apple pies could not retain their places on the 
pantry shelves. At one farmhouse, Eugene Par- 
rott says that he found on a nail, on the porch 
where the owner's waterproof evidently belongea, 
a note saying, ' ' One rubber coat taken for the use 
of the United States Army," and signed by one of 
our good 86th boys. 

Basil Duke, in speaking of a sharp skirmish, 
says that the wildest looking fellow, perhaps, in 
the Federal army came rattling down the pike on a 
big sorrel horse which he could not hold, his hair 
standing on end, his mouth wide open, his shirt- 
collar flying by one end like a flag of truce, and his 
eyes glazed. He was caught by the greatest wag 
in the command and perhaps in the western Con- 



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federate army— the celebrated Jeff Sterritt. With 
a look of appalling ferocity, the captor exclaimed, 
' ' I don 't know whether to kill you now or wait till 
the fight's over." "For God's sake," said the 
captive, "don't kill me at all. I'm a dissipated 
character and not prepared to die." 
***** 

On the first start out of Morgan on his great 
raid, an old citizen rode with the cavalry from 
Tennessee up into Kentucky to get some salt. 
After securing a barrel at Burkesville, he was 
afraid to take it home for fear of bushwhackers, 
and so concluded to remain with the cavalry and 
get it when they returned into Tennessee. So he 
went with the boys, very much downcast, but look- 
ing as cheerful as he could. Near the close of the 
raid in Ohio, when there was no time to sleep, and 
little time to eat, and the lungs and liver were being 
continually tossed up and down by the uncertain 
motion of a tired horse, the old man, with tears in 
his eyes and a touching pathos in his voice, con- 
fidentially turned to an officer, and opening his 
heart, said: "Captain, I would give my farm in 
White County, Tenn., and all the salt in Kentucky 
to stand once more, safe and sound, on the banks of 
Calf-killer Creek." 



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MORGAN'S MARE. 
''Black Bess" was, I think, the most beauti- 
ful and one of the finest specimens of horse flesh 
I ever saw. Scant fifteen hands in height, her 
strong back, broad tilted loins and muscular thighs 
enabled her to carry Morgan's 185 pounds as if 
he were a feather weight. Her coat was jet black 
and glossy as satin. I never saw such a head. It 
was as dainty and as finely modeled as a lady's. 
Wide between the eyes, it tapered to a muzzle small 
enough to drink from a goblet and was beautifully 
set upon a symmetrical and capacious throttle. Her 
neck was straight and unusually well proportioned, 
her girth deep and shoulders thin and sloping but 
indicative of strength. Short in the saddle space, 
but lengthy from brisket to whirlbone, with arched 
back and rib and wide flank, her entire form was 
eloquent of speed and endurance. Her legs were 
clean, with firm, dry muscle and tendons like steel 
wires, and her hoofs small, round and hard as flint. 
From her Canadian sire, Drennon, one of the great- 
est saddle stallions of Kentucky, she inherited 
nimble action and the staunchest constitution, and 
her thoroughbred dam dowered her with speed, 
courage, intelligence and grace.— From "Morgan's 
Cavalry, ' ' by Basil W. Duke. 

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THE CONFEDERACY'S LAST GASP. 

At Abbeville, S. C, was held the last Con- 
federate council of war. Mr. Davis desired to know 
from his brigade commanders the true spirit of 
the men. He presided himself. Besides Generals 
Breckinridge and Bragg, none others were pres- 
ent than the five brigade commanders. Mr. Davis 
was apparently untouched by any of the demoral- 
ization which prevailed; he was affable, dignified 
and looked the very personification of high and 
undaunted courage. Each officer gave, in turn, 
a statement of the condition and feeling of his men, 
and, when urged to do so, declared his own views 
of the situation. In substance all said the same. 
They and their followers despaired of successfully 
prosecuting the war, and doubted the propriety of 
prolonging it. The honor of the soldiery was in- 
volved in securing Mr. Davis' escape, and their 
pride induced them to put off submission to the last 
moment. They would risk battle in the accomplish- 
ment of these objects but would not ask their men 
to struggle against a fate which was inevitable, and 
forfeit all hope of a restoration to their home 
friends. Mr. Davis declared that he wished to hear 
no plan which had for its object only his safety; 
that 2,500 men, brave men, were enough to prolong 

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the war until the panic had passed away, and they 
would then be a nucleus for thousands more. He 
urged us to accept his views. We were silent, for 
we could not agree with him and respected him 
too much to reply. He then said, bitterly, that he 
saw all hope was gone ; that all the f rienas of the 
south were prepared to consent to her degradation. 
When he arose to leave the room he had lost his 
erect bearing, his face was pale and he faltered so 
much in his step that he was compelled to lean upon 
General Breckinridge. It was a sad sight to men 
who felt toward him as we did. I will venture to 
say that nothing he has subsequently endured 
equalled the bitterness of that moment. At the 
Savannah Eiver, next day, the men were paid, 
through the influence of General Breckinridge, with 
a portion of specie bl'ought from Richmond. Each 
man got from $26.00 to $30.00— as he was lucky. 

At Washington, Ga., on the same day, the 7th 
of May, 1865, Mr. Davis left us, with the under- 
standing that he was to attempt to make his escape. 
General Breckinridge had determined to proceed, 
with all the men remaining, in an opposite direc- 
tion, and divert, if possible, pursuit from Mr. 
Davis. 



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Many men of my brigade, without horses and 
unable to get any, and many of the paroled men 
hoping to be exchanged, had followed us out from 
Virginia, walking more than 300 miles. When at 
length, unwilling to expose them to further risk 
and suffering, I positively prohibited their coming 
farther, they wept like children. — From "Morgan's 
Cavalry," by Basil W. Duke. 



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Roster of the Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Ohio Volunteer Infantry 

1863-4 



Giving rank, age and place of enlistment in Ohio. 
Those marked with a star are known to be dead. 

FIELD AND STAFF 

Wilson C. Lemert, Bucyrus (25) Colonel 

Robert W. MoFarland, Oxford (38) . . .Lt. Colonel 

*^ William Kraus, Youngstown (25) Major 

Henry E. Parrott, Camp Dennison (24) 

Adjutant and A. A. A. G. of Brig. 

*Rufus P. Manning, Youngstown (26) 

Quartermaster 

Charles Reynolds, not given (28) Chaplain 

William R. S. Clark, not given (42) Surgeon 

William C. Catlin, not given (46) . . . Ass't Surgeon 

John Hill, not given (28) Ass't Surgeon 

William B. Hedges, not given (25) .Ass't Surgeon 
James T. Langstroth, Oxford (25) . . . .Serg. Major 

William McClure, Dayton (20) Serg. Major 

Charles B. Stoddard, Poland (19) 

Quartermaster Serg. 

John Laver, Delta (23) Com. Sergeant 

Samuel Ridenour, Oxford (26) . .Hospital Steward 



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COMPANY A 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

Seth H. Truesdale, Poland (20) Captain 

*Lewis N. Pollock, Youngstown (21) . . .1st Lieut. 
Charles E. Patrick, Youngstown (27) 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

Charles B. Stoddard, first (19) Poland 

*Josiali L. Zimmerman, first (18) Poland 

*Jolm I). Dickson (28) Poland 

*John S. Pollock (19) Youngstown 

*Hugh R. Moore (21) Poland 

*James T. Wick (37) Youngstown 

CORPORALS 

Campbell, Louis L. (23) Youngstown 

*Cowden, Isaac P. (19) Poland 

*Crandon, Edgar (23) Youngstown 

*Kyle, Benjamin (20) Youngstown 

Hobbs, Samuel (19) Milton 

Holland, Samuel (pro) (19) Youngstown 

Stewart, Truesdale (20) Poland 

Shunk, Joseph L. (18) Milton 

Wilson, John J. (23) Youngstown 

MUSICIANS 

Courtney, William D. (17) Poland 

Welch, William (16) Cleveland 

PRIVATES 

Ague, George (18) Youngstown 

Ammons, Thomas (18) Youngstown 



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Anderson, Thomas (22) Youngstown 

Arlvwrigbt, Delaney (18) Youngstown 

Ashburn, J. Nelson (25) Lordstown 

*Augden, Seth (18) Poland 

Bailey, William (18) Youngstown 

Ballard, George H. (20) Youngstown 

*Blackman, Daniel (18) Poland 

Brainard, Clayton T. (18) Poland 

*Braden, Edgar (18) Youngstown 

Clewell, James J. (18) Milton 

Dean, Charles (18) Poland 

Deemer, Charles B. (25) Youngstown 

Fusselman, James (18) Youngstown 

Goddard, John (19) Cleveland 

Gregor, Isaiah (20) Milton 

*Gerwig, Henrj^ T. (18) Youngstown 

Glendenning, Harrison. H., ivagoner (26) 

Youngstown 

Guenther, Charles W. (18) Youngstown 

Hall, William L. (19) Youngstown 

Hayne, Francis (42) Youngstown 

Hill, Jerome F. (19) Poland 

Hollabaugh, Edward (18) Poland 

Holeton, James M. (19) Youngstown 

Holeton, Charles E. (18) Youngstown 

Houlette, Albert (18) Youngstown 

Hubler, Judson L. (24) Youngstown 

*Hubler, Horatio E. (21) Youngstown 

*Hubbard, Henry (23) Youngstown 



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*Ipe, William (18) Poland 

Jewell, Samuel (18) Youngstown 

Jones, Henry I. (18) Youngstown 

Jones, Howell (18) Youngstown 

Kegarice, Leander (21) Poland 

Kelly, David (29) Youngstown 

King, George W. (18) Columbus 

Lee, Edward (20) Poland 

*Livingston, Thomas S. (18) Poland 

Llewellyn, David (18) Youngstown 

McDonald, Alexander C. (18) Cleveland 

(Corrected to Donaldson) 

McFall, Malcolm (18) Camp Tod 

*McFarland, William J. (21) Poland 

McKale, William (18) Youngstown 

*McNabb, Darius B. (18) Poland 

Moherman, Josiah (20) Poland 

*Moherman, Lewis (18) Poland 

*Molierman, Lazarus (23) Poland 

Moore, William B. (22) Poland 

*Montgomery, David (18) Youngstown 

Packard, Loverain (18) Youngstown 

Parker, Charles (18) Poland 

^Partridge, Manly (18) Youngstown 

Pfiesder, John A. (19) Milton 

^Phillips, George (18) Youngstown 

*Pollock, Thomas H. (19) Youngstown 

*Pothour, Emmett (18) Camp Tod 

Eader, Henry H. (18) Youngstown 

Randolph, Clayton (18) Youngstown 



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Redinger, Israel (18) Poland 

Reed, Henderson (18) Poland 

Reed, Henry (18) Milton 

Reno, Henry C. (19) Youngstown 

Roberts, Henry (18) Youngstown 

Rollen, David (27) Youngstown 

Simonds, Joshua (21) Poland 

*Simonds, Deemer S. (18) Poland 

Smith, Hiram (19) Cleveland 

*Stacy, Turhan (18) Cleveland 

Stambaugh, Samuel (18) Youngstown 

*Struthers, John S. (21) Youngstown 

Toulman, Henry (32) Youngstown 

Thompson, Henry (19) Youngstown 

Welch, Robert (18) Youngstown 

White, John W. (18) Not Given 

Zedaker, Solomon (19) Poland 



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COMPANY B 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

James W. Field, Marysville (26) Captain 

*Ulysses D. Cole, Marysville (21) 1st Lieut. 

Brown Newlove, London (21) 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

Orson P. Converse, first (21) Sick— Disch'd 

*William S. Filler, first (19) Marysville 

Walter R. Gillis (21) Bucyrus 

* Joseph Maskill (37) Pharisburg 

*George W. Snodgrass (21) Marysville 

*James Welsh (18) Marysville 

CORPORALS 

Ketch, Lewis J. (19) Not Given 

Lawson Woodburn (19) Marysville 

*Marshal, James C. (21) Marysville 

Miller, Richard M. (23) Marysville 

Morris, Solomon (26) Rosedale 

*Pyers, Stephen (24) Cleveland 

*Turner, Sylvester T. (18) Marysville 

Wilbur, William (22) Milford Center 

MUSICIANS 

McCampbell, William (16) Marysville 

Randall, Edward (16) Rush Creek 

PRIVATES 

Andrews, Byron (18) Milford Center 

Andrews, Clayton (17) Milford Center 

Beach, William (19) Marysville 

Beltz, Lewis (19) Allen Center 



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Bidwell, Lafayette (26) Lafayette 

Burrows, Leonard R. (18) Marysville 

Cameron, William (21) Richmond 

Cartwell, Thomas J. (19) Marysville 

Clark, Armah M. (20) Marysville 

Collier, Arthur (18) Pleasant Valley 

Coolridge, Hiram (18) Maiysville 

Cratty, Reuben F. (23) New Dover 

Curry, Addison (20) New California 

Darling, John (19) Raymond 

^Doolen, Daniel (30) Marysville 

Dutton, Joseph R. (21) New Dover 

Farshel, John F. (18) Camp Tod 

Figley, Jonas (19) Raymond 

Ford, Henry C. (25) Pharisburg 

Fritz, George H. (18) Milford Center 

Gill, Andrew (20) Camp Tod 

Griffith, Truman R. (19) New Dover 

Harper, Seaton (17) Unionville Center 

Harris, Philip (28) Camp Tod 

*Heasley, William P. (27) Marysville 

Hahn, Daniel (18) Camp Tod 

Hornbeck, Alexander (18) Raymond 

*Horney, Jethro (20) Marysville 

Hopkins, Lafayette (19) Milford 

*Kahler, Henry (21) Darley Creek 

Keeseker, George W. (18) Lafayette 

*Kent, Cicero (26) Not Given 

Killberry, Solomon (20) Darley Creek 



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Lamson, Freeman H. (18) Raymond 

Landsdown, Rodney P. (18) Marysville 

Loring-, Emery (19) Marysville 

Marks, William (35) Pleasant Valley 

Marvin, John (17) Marysville 

Mathias, Charles (18) Delaware 

^McConneha, Andrew (26) Marysville 

Mclntyre, William (19) Marysville 

^McNeil, William (21) Mar\^sville 

Moffet, Jared (18) Raymond 

Moody, James (22) Marysville 

Moore, Harvey (18) Raymond 

Moore, Samuel (19) Raymond 

Morse, John P. (22) Milford Center 

*Orahood, Reuben (21) Marysville 

Oraliood, Hiram (19) Marysville 

Powers, William (19) Marysville 

Rader, Rawson (18) Marysville 

Reed, Reuben (18) Milford Center 

Robinson, Imer (19) New California 

Robinson, William D. (18) . . . .Uniontown Center 

Seeley, Luther (18) Delphos 

*Sherwood, Amos (17) Darley Creek 

Shirk, Jonas (17) Milford Center 

Shout, Isaiah (23) New Dover 

*Smith, Albert J. (18) Mar}^sville 

*Smith, Elijah (19) Marysville 

*Smith, Ira S. (18) Milford Center 

*Smith, William M. (38) Marysville 



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Snider, Adam (18) Marysville 

Smder, Ezekiel(18) Pharisburg 

*Smder, Henrj- (21) Mary^^iUe 

*Smder, William (23) Pharisburg 

Spa,n, Marshall (18) Marysville 

Spam, Robert T. (19) New Dover 

S.ckney, Joshua (18) Camp Tod 

btillmgs, William (20) Milford Center 

Strunk, Eli (20) jr 

„ , ' ^ ' Marysville 

Taylor, Samuel E. (18) Unionville Center 

Turner, Emery (20) Marysville 

♦Webster, Lyster L. (29) Marysville 

Weller, Edward (22) Marysville 

*Wench (Welsh) Prank (20) Union County 

*Wilson, Charles J. (43) Marysville 

*W,lson, William M. (21) West Canaan 

Wilson, Lafayette (24) Camp Tod 

3'«^'E"<20) Mar,.sville 

Wise, William (19) Marysville 

Woolford, Marvin (26) Unionville Center 

Wood, David (23) Pharisburg 

AVoodburn, Heber (18) Marysville 



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COMPANY C 

commissioned officees 
*Aaroii K. Lindsley, Wellington (46) . . . .Captain 
* William W. Cockley, Lexington (23). .1st Lieut. 
*John B. Welch, not given (23) 2d Lieut. 

sergeants 

Charles E. Clark, first (24) Wellington 

William D. Matthews (18) Lexington 

Richard Gailey (18) Lexington 

*Lucius E. Finch (19) Wellington 

Archibald M. Willard (25) Wellington 

CORPORALS 

Bell, Robert P. (18) Lexington 

Bennett, Frank W. (19) Wellington 

Buffet, Josiah (28) Wellington 

Craycraft, Abner W. (25) Lexington 

*Davidson, Charles B. (22) Wellington 

Pollock, Calvin J. (18) Lexington 

*Smith, Frank B. (26) Wellington 

Wilcox, Stanley E. (19) Wellington 

musicians 

Lindenberger, Samuel (39) Evansport 

Wilcox, Horace M. (17) Huntington 

privates 

Adams, Henry (18) Huntington 

Allison, William J. (21) Oberlin 

Avery, Milan (20) Wellington 

Bear, Joseph (18) Fostoria 



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Beatty, Henry C. (22) Lexington 

Bell, Isaac (18) Nashville 

Bell, Joseph or John (18) Nashville 

Bennett, Henry (23) Wellington 

Blackford, Joseph (25) Fostoria 

Bough ton, Samuel H. (21) Cleveland 

Bowers, Charles (26) Wellington 

Boyd, Hugh, W. A. (18) Fostoria 

Caldwell, David (18) Fostoria 

^Campbell, Robert B. (18) Lexington 

Christopher, Barney (18) Millersburg 

Cochran, John C. (24) Fostoria 

Colwell, James D. (18) Lexington 

Cook, Logan L. (18) Lexington 

Cook, Jacob (18) Fostoria 

Coon, George W. (18) Fostoria 

Copper, Aaron (23) Fostoria 

*Crandall, Joshua (19) AVellington 

Cuthbertson, Walter (18) Fostoria 

Deardorff, Samuel (28) Lexington 

Dicken, Nathan P. (19) Fostoria 

Dixon, James J. (25) Wellington 

Emmons, William (18) Brighton 

Evans, Aaron (18) Millersburg 

*Finch, Darwin (21) Wellington 

Forbes, Simon (18) Millersburg 

Gants, James L. (18) Nashville 

Gass, William (30) Lexington 

Gass, Columbus D. (27) Lexington 



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HisTOKY OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Grafe, Theodore (22) Millersburg 

Green, Charles (18) Lexington 

Green, David (18) Cleveland 

Hale, Russell B. (18) Fostoria 

Hales, George (18) Wellington 

Hamilton, Linville E. (19) Wellington 

Hansen, Charles 0. (18) Oberlin 

Hartley, George (18) Fostoria 

*Hartwell, Lucien H. (18) Cleveland 

Hayes, Edwin (18) Fostoria 

*Heifner, George W. (18) Oberlin 

Hites, George (18) Millersburg 

Hunt, Robert B. (18) Millersburg 

Hunter, John (21) Lexington 

Jameson, Thomas L. (18) Lexington 

Johnson, John (18) Lexington 

Kaut¥man, David F. (18) Lexington 

Keefer, Samuel (36) Millersburg 

Landers, Andrew (18) Lexington 

Laser, Levi (18) Mansfield 

Lee, Nelson T. (40) Cleveland 

Lewis, George W. (18) Lexington 

Mandevill, Turner H. (18) Lexington 

*Marcy, Garrison (18) Wellington 

McCartney, William (20) Millersburg 

McCune, John M. (18) Fostoria 

McDonel, Isaiah (18) Cleveland 

Merhill, Eugene (18) Wellington 

Miller, Ezra (18) Fostoria 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Milleson, Jacob (19) Millersburg 

Morgan, Dayton (18) Wellington 

Myers, Bentley W. (23) Lexington 

lumbers, William S. (18) Lexington 

Oberlin, Benjamin F. (18) Lexington 

Prestage, Charles A. (18) Oberlin 

Price, Madison (18) Millersburg 

Reed, Hiram (18) Lexington 

Rogers, Mervin E. (18) Columbus 

*Sevage, John (20) Wellington 

Shatzer, Christian (18) Lexington 

*Simons, Benjamin F. (18) Fostoria 

Springer, Isaac (18) Oberlin 

Stahl, Israel (18) Fostoria 

Stahl, John J. (18) Jackson 

Sterling, John C. (18) Millersburg 

*Stevick, David (26) Wellington 

Strong, Frank (18) Cleveland 

Terry, Henry (18) Wellington 

Thornton, Alonzo C. (20) Cleveland 

Wilson, James A. (18) Lexington 

Withrow, John L. (18) Nashville 

Wright, William S. (18) Wellington 



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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

COMPANY D 

commissioned officers 

*Johii H. Reid, Bowling Green (40) Captain 

Josiali B. Stanford, Wooster (25) 1st Lieut. 

James T. Dean, Milton Center (30) 2d Lieut. 

sergeants 

William Lightcap, first (26) Wooster 

*John Fryman (19) Portage 

Lewis Lehman (23) Portage 

William Noyes (17) Bowling Green 

*George Weddell (26) Scotch Ridge 

CORPORALS 

*Anderson, Joseph (32) Bowling Green 

Benson, Wells W. (18) Bellaire 

Campbell, Benjamin (19) Milton 

Heniy, Charles W. (18) Wooster 

McMillen, Cyrus C. (18) Wooster 

Selkirk, Edward H. (18) Bowling Green 

White, William (18) Wooster 

*Winton, Morton J. (21) Bowling Green 

musicians 

Collins, George (16) Wooster 

*Marks, Warren L. (14) Milton 

PRIVATES 

Anderson, Benjamin W. (18) Bowling Green 

Baker, Daniel C. (18) Wooster 

Bair, Adam (18) Woostei 

Baumgardner, Frank B. (19) Wooster 

Baumgardner, Marion (18) Wooster 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Bevington, Jonathan (18) Wooster 

Bey, Thomas F. (18) Wooster 

Boden, William (18) Wooster 

Boyce, Alexander W. (19) Wood county 

*Bradley, Charles (20) Bowling Green 

Bradley, James N. (18) Wooster 

Brown, Charles H. (24) .Bowling Green 

Carter, Jeremiah (18) Bowling Green 

Collins, David (23) Bowling Green 

Crawford, James (19) Wooster 

Cunningham, Theodore (18) Wooster 

*Dean, George (20) Milton 

*Dean, Joseph (18) Milton 

*Dunnipace, William W. (21) Webster 

Dyarman, William (18) Wooster 

Eberhart, Leonard (18) Wooster 

Eberhart, Reason W. (19) Wooster 

Fay, Sanford (18) Bowling Green 

Foltz, Elmore (18) Wooster 

France, Edward (19) Milton 

Fraize, Calvin (18) ; Wooster 

French, James W. (24) Wooster 

*Finney, Rodger (30) Bowling Green 

Garrard, Samuel C. (18) Bellaire 

Gibson, John (18) Bowling Green 

^Gorton, George B. (22) Portage 

Gossett, James (19) Camp Tod 

Grimm, James (18) Wooster 

Harrison, John H. (20) Portage 



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Hartz, Jacob H. (19) Milton 

Housley, Andrew (18) Portage 

Hunter, Milo C. (18) Milton 

Jackson, Andrew (30) Bowling Green 

Leitner, "William (18) Wooster 

Lemmon, John J. (19) Wooster 

Long, Leo (18) Bowling Green 

Malone, George H. (28) Milton 

Maize, Jacob A. (19) Wooster 

Marks, James M. (18) Milton 

Marshall, James (19) Wood County 

McGonegal, Dennis (18) Milton 

Mercer, Lewis (18) Zanesville 

Miller, William D. (18) Wooster 

Mitchelson, Jacob (18) Wooster 

Morrison, Edward (18) Milton 

Ordway, Nehemiah (18) Bowling Green 

Parker, William (23) Wooster 

*Peck, Frederick W. (18) Bowling Green 

Plemmon, Julius (18) Bowling Green 

Pocock, Eli (18) Wooster 

Richards, David H. (18) Wood County 

^Roberts, Samuel (18) Wood County 

Saybolt, Abram, Jr. (18) Wooster 

Seemly, John (28) Wooster 

Smith, John (18) Webster 

Smith, Joseph A. (21) Portage 

Sprague, Charles (18) Wooster 

Starr, Belden (18) Portage 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

*Stewart, Robert D. (21) Webster 

Straus, David (18) Wooster 

Underwood, Robert (18) Bowling Green 

Vanmeter, Wesley (18) Wooster 

*Walker, Lyman (19) Bowling Green 

*Wallace, John (19) Portage 

Wallace, Robert (18) Portage 

Walling, William (20) Milton 

Ward, George W. (18) Milton 

Wayne, Isaac (18) Wooster 

Weiler, Joseph (18) Wooster 

Wilson, John W. (20) Webster 

Winkler, David (18) Wooster 

Woodland, Thomas (18) Wooster 



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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

COMPANY E 

commissioned officers 

*Thomas Yeager, Stryker (34) Captain 

*Saniuel Wood, Edgerton (24) 1st Lieut. 

* Justus O. Rose, Edgerton (38) 2d Lieut. 

sergeants 

*William Sloan, pst (21) Stryker 

Albert Towl (21) Evansport 

Harrison Spangler (21) Edgerton 

Moses H. Urguhart (34) Evansport 

John W. Smith (24) ^ Edgerton 

CORPORALS 

Ackley, John W. (21) Edgerton 

Cadwell, John (18) Edgerton 

Casebeer, John F. (24) Edgerton 

*Christy, Robert L. (22) Evansport 

*Hendricks, George J. (28) Edgerton 

Key, Francis L. (27) Evansport 

*Lindsley, Seth (42) Stiyker 

Whaley, Jonathan T. (22) Evansport 

MUSICIANS 

*Bradley, Winfield S. (15) Stryker 

Cole, Seth R. (18) Edgerton 

PRIVATES 

Allshouse, Brice (18) Evansport 

Arnsberger, Reuben (22) Stryker 

Arnsberger, Watson (20) Stryker 

Arrants, John J. (19) Edgerton 

Baker, Thomas (19) Evansport 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Bancroft, Henry W. (18) Archibald 

Bassett, Thomas P. (34) Edgerton 

Bender, Uriah (18) Center 

Bender, Simon (18) Evansport 

Bradley, George F. (18) '. Stryker 

Bronson, Chester (18) Edgerton 

Buck, William (18) Evansport 

Carey, Daniel (18) Milford 

Clark, Daniel S. (20) Stryker 

Clawson, Stephen (20) '. .Edgerton 

Cooper, Francis M. (18) Center 

Dart, Elias R. (21) Not Mustered 

Dawson, Zedekiah (32) Evansport 

Dowell, Moses (18) Stryker 

English, Abner W. (19) Stryker 

Ferrier, John (31) Stryker 

Ferman, John F. (40) Evansport 

Fetters, John (19) Edgerton 

Fisher, Robert (18) Edgerton 

Frank, George (22) Stryker 

Furgeson, David J. (18) Center 

Gardner, Chauncey D. (18) Edgerton 

Giles, John (20) Edgerton 

Gillett, Edward (18) Edgerton 

Gusham, Lyman T. (18) Edgerton 

Hall, Martin (18) Evansport 

Hall, Jacob (32) Evansport 

Hall, William C. (26) Evansport 

Hall, Adam C. (23) Evansport 



123 



Htstoey of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Harker, Daniel P. (18) Edgertoii 

Hastings, George (21) Edgerton 

Huffman, Christian (18) Evansport 

Huffman, Valentine (20) Evansport 

Huyck, James (18) Stryker 

Irish, Silas W. (18) Stryker 

Kissinger, Henry L. (22) Edgerton 

Lacost, Francis D. (18) Center 

Livingston, Harlon (18) Emerald 

*Lloyd, Frank (19) Center 

Magner, Albert J. (18) Cleveland 

Mainard, Harland (18) Center 

Marshall, Bartley (18) Edgerton 

McConeghy, Archibald (20) Evansport 

McConeghy, George (20) Evansport 

McCoy, William (43) Stryker 

McDaniel, Hiram G. (18) Evansport 

McMahan, James (21) Jackson 

Merchant, William (18) Emerald 

Mills, George W. (24) Stryker 

Moore, John E. (19) Stryker 

*Neer, Walter G. (18) Edgerton 

Neyhart, Moses (18) Not Given 

Nunn, Frederick (18) Stryker 

Perkey, David (24) Edgerton 

Replogle, Aaron B. (18) Evansport 

Rima, William N. (25) Edgerton 

Scheer, John J. (24) Evansport 

Sharp, George (20) Emerald 



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Ohio Votatnteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Shaeffer, Henry (18) Not Given 

Shepmire, Richard (18) Evansport 

Shirts, Samuel (18) Edgerton 

Smith, Matthew (27) Center 

Spangler, Emanuel (20) Emerald 

Sprague, John C. (33) Evansport 

Steadman, Alson S. (21) JNey 

Stilwell, Jacob S., ivagoner (21) Stryker 

Sullinger, William P. (19) Evansport 

Sunday, Daniel (22) Emerald 

Sunday, David (19) Emerald 

Sunday, Emanuel (26) Emerald 

Swager, John (18) Emerald 

Thurston, John (19) Stryker 

Vanimens, Frank (18) Edgerton 

Vanimens, Samuel (19) Edgerton 

Weitz, John A. (20) Edgerton 

Wideman, Lewis H. (21) Edgerton 

Wilson, Philander E. (24) Edgerton 

Witt, Jefferson (18) Strj^ker 

Wright, Charles (24) Edgerton 



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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 
COMPANY F 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

*Joab Squire, Jr., Tontogany (27) Captain 

*Thoinas J. Sterling, Grand Rapids (34) 

1st Lieut. 

*James T. Lanstrotli, Oxford (25) 1st Lieut. 

John Zimmerman, Milton Center (28) . . .2d Lieut. 

sergeants 

Samuel F. Vorhes, first (30) Gilead 

William Black (33) Tontogany 

*Uriali S. Dewese (20) Tontogany 

James 0. Robinson (21) Tontogany 

Carolus E. Vorhes (20) Gilead 

CORPORALS 

Alt, George (24) Tontogany 

Love, John (28) Texas, 0. 

Olden, Silas S., (20) Gilead 

Pugh, Daniel B. (18) Gilead 

Schlappi, James (18) Delta 

Smith, Jacob (19) Gilead 

*Skinner, James T. (45) Tontogany 

Waldron, Charles (21) Delta 

MUSICIANS 

*Campbell, Thomas D. (16) Gilead 

Trowbridge, Oscar W. (15) Delta 

PRIVATES 

Ackmire, George (18) Millersburg 

Armitage, Thomas (25) Tontogany 



126 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Ayeres, Charles D. (18) Delta 

Badorff, Andrew (18) Delta 

Benschoter, Jeremiah S. (19) Gilead 

Bortel, Henry C. (19) Gilead 

Broclvway, Charles (18) Delta 

Burket, John (22) Gilead 

Burket, Joseph (27) Gilead 

Burton, Carlos (19) Tontogany 

Campbell, Beverly M. (18) Gilead 

Carpenter, Cyrus (18) Delta 

Carr, Michael (28) Delta 

Clark, Thomas S. (18) Tontogany 

Cole, Simon P. (22) Delta 

Critzer, James (18) Delta 

Crom, Jeremiah B. (20) Gilead 

Davis, Thomas (18) Gilead 

Eccleston, Joseph (18) Delta 

Elliott, James (44) Camp Tod 

Ewing, Edward (18) Tontogany 

Falor, Joseph (18) Delta 

Fenton, John (39) Gilead 

Frankforther, Jacob (19) Gilead 

Frankforther, Henry (38) Gilead 

Franklin, Francis (31) Tontogany 

Garett, Christopher (18) Tontogany 

Hill, Edward W. (21) Delta 

Junkins, Thomas (41) Gilead 

Laver, John (29) Delta 

Lingo, John (19) Tontogany 



127 



HiSTOEV" OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Long, Isaiah (18) Gilead 

Long, William (46) Texas, 0. 

Lowmaster, John B. (20) Gilead 

Lucas, William (18) Zanesville 

Mangle, David (19) Delta 

McDougal, John A. (18) Gilead 

McUnderwood, William (47) Tontogany 

Miller, William C. (18) Tontogany 

Morrell, Henry W. (20) Cleveland 

Morrison, Jonathan (33) Gilead 

Moyer, Edward (18) Delta 

Murry, George (19) Gilead 

Muman, Henry (21) Delta 

Newell, Albert (18) Gilead 

Palmer, David (18) Delta 

Pennock, Andrew (17) Tontogany 

Peters, Henry (20) Gilead 

Phoenix, Festus F. (23) Tontogany 

Phillips, Moses (45) Cincinnati 

Raker, Martin (18) Delta 

Reed, John C. (18) Tontogany 

Remington, Edward (19) Tontogany 

Ring, Francis (18) Delta 

Sadler, John L. (22) Millersburg 

Salisbury, Israel (18) Delta 

*Schlappi, Henry (22) Delta 

*Smith, Warren M. (19) Gilead 

Spencer, George (22) Delta 

Stewart, William (18) Gilead 



128 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Sturgeon, James H. (18) Gilead 

Tuttle, John L. (18) Delta 

Van Horn, Austin G. (19) Gilead 

Van Meer, Robert (33) Gilead 

Van Newkirk, John (28) Gilead 

*Wade, Americus (18) Tontogany 

*Wade, Henry C. (21) Tontogany 

Waffle, Josiah J. (20) Delta 

Ward, Edward (21) Gilead 

Ward, Joseph (18) Gilead 

Wickham, James T. (18) Zanesville 

Williams, Ernst (18) Tontogany 

Wilson, Joseph (20) Tontogany 

Wood, Walter (18) Tontogany 



129 



History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 
COMPANY G 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

*William F. Millikan, WwFarmington (40) Captain 

*Allen P. Steele, Wadswortli (27) 1st Lieut. 

*Virgil N. Weir, Warren (25) 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

*Addison L. Woolcott, first (19) Trumbull Co. 

Milton H. Murdock (19) Milton 

Thomas Hay ward (20) Wadsworth 

Henry L. Musser (20) Warren 

Albert H. Smith (19) Bloomfield 

CORPORALS 

Bascom, William A. (22) Green 

Freer, Romeo H. (18) Warren 

Hill, Luther H. (19) Medina 

Kidd, AVilliam R. (20) Canaan 

Lee, Austin (19) Farmington 

McCracken, William T. (19) Green 

*Smith, Henry C. (19) Mesopotamia 

Waters, Harlan P. (19) Green 

MUSICIANS 

Adams, Charles E. (19) Bristol 

Lee, Seymour (19) Fannington 

PRIVATES 

Anderson, William H. (18) Warren 

Angstadt, Charles H. (19) Warren 

Aukennan, Liberty J. (19) Canaan 

Baird, Aaron D. (18) Mesopotamia 



130 



Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-6-1 

Bateman, John P. (18) Zanesville 

Beach, Luman E. (18) Wadsworth 

Bestwick, Jacob H. (18) Mesopotamia 

Bowers, Adolphus C. (18) Mesopotamia 

^Bridgen, Irvin (18) Mesopotamia 

Browning, Albert H. (21) Farmington 

Burns, John H. (20) Canaan 

Clark, Almond H. (22) Farmington 

Combs, John, ivagoner (19) Trumbull Co. 

Colwell, Lamar (18) Leroy 

Crane, George F. (18) Wadsworth 

Crowe, Charles E. (18) Leroy 

Davidson, Samuel J. (21) Farmington 

Earle, Frank (19) Canaan 

Euler, George W. (18) Wayne Co. 

Freeburn, William (20) Wadsworth 

Fulmer, Jacob (18) Wadsworth 

Gilbert, Norman A. (18) Farmington 

Gillett, Elbert (18) Farmington 

Griffith, Jasper N. (20) Madison 

Hall, Heniy C. (18) Farmington 

Harbaugh, J. William (25) Canaan 

Harrington, John N. (25) Green 

Hines, Calvin (19) Wadsworth 

*Hoffman, Henry (28) Farmington 

Hoisington, Simon E. (23) Canaan 

Hunt, Edward (20) Wadsworth 

Jackson, John W. (26) Green 

Johnson, William W. (17) Disc'h on writ H. C. 



131 



History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Jones, Nathan S. (29) Westfield 

Keck, Henry (34) Canaan 

Kline, John J. (18) Wadsworth 

Knight, Charles R. (19) Warren 

Koppelberger, William (18) Guilford 

Lee, Thomas C. (18) Braceville 

Liggett, Thomas C. (18) Wadsworth 

Lillibridge, David E. (23) Green 

Martin, Robert (19) Farmington 

Marsh, Francis (18) Canaan 

McCardell, James (20) Green 

McCoy, James (20) Wadsworth 

McGuff, John (18) Jackson 

Mease, Henry (21) Warren 

Miller, James (18) Northfield 

Nims, Julius K. (18) Green 

Orton, Ransom S. (18) Sharon 

Osmer, Addison F. (19) Farmington 

Osmer, Orvel C. (18) Farmington 

Palan, George (25) Wadsworth 

Phinney, Edwin W. (18) Medina Co. 

Pierce, Cassius M. (18) Mesopotamia 

Reese, Newton P. (18) Wadsworth 

Richards, Charles E. (18) Farmington 

Schlabach, Benjamin F. (19) Wadsworth 

Showalter, Henry (18) Canaan 

Shumaker, Levi C. (18) Canaan 

Slimmons, John E. (18) Canaan 

Sloan, Merrick J. (18) Green 



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Ohio Volunteee Infantry, 1863-64 

Slutts, Delemire L. (18) Canaan 

Stebbins, Ira J. (32) Canaan 

Stickler, Wilbur (18) Bridgeport 

Stimson, Robert L. (20) Westfield 

Stotts, Stillman (18) Zanesville 

Tanner, William (20) Canaan 

Taylor, Frank C. (18) Warren 

Ustick, James K. (18) Wadsworth 

Waffle, Clinton D. (18) Wadsworth 

Webb, Peter L. (18) Warren 

Wells, Rolla (18) Canaan 

White, James J. (18) Disc'd to enter 3 yr. 

Wright, Albert (18) Norton 



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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 
COMPANY H 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

Erastus W. Briggs, Wauseon (28) Captain 

Marion Losure, Wauseon (23) 1st Lieut. 

^Augustus A, Wood, Wauseon 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

Josiah Hodges, first (26) Wauseon 

Samuel Hodges (27) Wauseon 

*Ithamei' Jones (25) Wauseon 

Cyrus B. Lyon (20) Wauseon 

*Theodore S. Williams (20) Wauseon 

CORPORALS 

Altman, Solomon (26) Wauseon 

Beaverson, Frederick (19) Wauseon 

Blizzard, Edward W. (19) Wauseon 

Cantleberiy, Levi (18) Wauseon 

Ely, Robert W. (19) Brady 

Haley, Lorenzo S. (19) Wauseon 

^Harrington, George W. (21) Medina 

Helwick, Gabriel (20) Wauseon 

MUSICIANS 

Anschutz, Philip (18) Wauseon 

Bayes, Philip (18) Wauseon 

PRIVATES 

Andrews, Charles J. (18) Wauseon 

Bayes, Henry (18) Wauseon 

Bayes, Isaac E. (19) Wauseon 

Bayes, Wesley (23) Wauseon 

Beltz, William (18) Union Co. 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-6-4 

Borton, Eber (18) West Unity 

Borton, John T. (18) Brady 

Brigham, Haven T. (18) Wauseon 

*Bulgei', Herman (18) Wauseon 

Butch, Adonirain J. (21) Fedora 

Butcher, Robert A. (18) West Unity 

Cantleberry, William (18) Wauseon 

Cunningham, David C. (18) Wauseon 

Dennis, John (18) Franklin 

Durbin, Presley C. (30) Wauseon 

Durbin, Columbus (25) Adrian, Mich. 

Ely, George A. (18) Brady 

Ely, Francisco (18) Franklin 

Fairfield, Cyrus (18) Archibald 

Ferris, George (18) Morenci, Mich. 

Filley, George E. (26) Pettisville 

^Foughty, John (20) West Bane 

Foughty, Spencer (20) West Bane 

Fuchshamber, Linhart (18) Pettisville 

Gleason, Warren (18) Blaine 

Handy, William H. (18) Ottoke 

Harda, Warner (23) Wauseon 

Hogeboom, Abram (19) Wauseon 

Holmes, Andrew J. (18) Wauseon 

Houghmire, Frank (18) Wauseon 

Hughes, Hugh W. (18) Wauseon 

Inman, James M. (19) Pettisville 

Kinney, Henry G. (19) Wauseon 

Knowles, Albert D. (18) Wauseon 



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HisTOKY OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Linfoot, Frank (18) Wauseon 

Long, Marion (18) Wauseon 

Markley, Philip (18) Archibald 

Martin, Charles (18) Morenci, Mich. 

McGonkey, Isaac (18) Fedora 

McKibbin, Robert J. (24) Wauseon 

Mikesell, Andrew (19) Wauseon 

Mikesell, Thomas (18) Wauseon 

Nachtrab, Joseph (18) Delta 

Newcomer, George D, (19) Wauseon 

Pelton, Thomas J. (18) Delta 

Pontius, Isaac M. (18) Wauseon 

Pontius, Wilson (21) Wauseon 

Porter, Enoch (18) Wauseon 

Poste, Abraham (18) Bellaire 

Price, James (18) Morenci, Mich. 

Persing, Albin U. (20) West Unity 

Rease, Lovel (18) West Bane 

Rice, Edward (18) Fayette 

*Sargent, Alfred (19) Wauseon 

Schank, Conrad (25) Wauseon 

Shelters, William D. D. (21) Wauseon 

Schwain, Peter (20) Wauseon 

Scott, David (18) Wauseon 

Shirer, Franklin (18) Zanesville 

Smith, Campbell K. (18) Bellaire 

Smith, John D. (18) Morenci, Mich. 

Snyder, Daniel (18) Fedora 

Spring, Cornelius M. (20) Fedora 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Taber, Philip (18) West Bane 

Vine, A. Jacob (18) Morenci, Mich. 

Warner, Joseph B. (18) Archibald 

Wise, Harrison (20) West Bane 

Zimmerman, Martin (18) Wauseon 



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History of Eighty-Sixth Regiment 
COMPANY I 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

^Robert Lysle, Tiffin (30) Captain 

nVilliam L. Myers, Tiffin (22) 1st Lieut. 

John Redd, Tiffin (22) 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

*Tliomas W. Organ first (23) Tiffin 

George Clark (18) Tiffin 

William W. Combs (21) West Unity 

Charles L. Morehouse (22) Tiffin 

*Henry Yost (18) Tiffin 

CORPORALS 

Burkhalter, William H. (19) Tiffin 

*Fahnstock, Ezra A. (21) Tiffin 

Gibson, Alonzo M. (18) Tiffin 

*Hoff, William D. (18) Tiffin 

*Phillii)s, Orson B. (25) Tiffin 

Poorman, Joel E. (19) Tiffin 

Raff, Edwin L. (19) Tiffin 

Spooner, Alden H. (18) Tiffin 

MUSICIANS 

Bricker, John H. (18) Tiffin 

Hass, Melancthon (19) Tiffin 

PRIVATES 

Ayers, Abner (18) West Unity 

Baum, Thomas J. (21) Not Given 

Branderberry, Richard W. (18) Tiffin 

Brand, Christian (19) Not Given 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-64 

Brown, George K. (24) Tiffin 

Chase, Frank (18) Not Given 

Chambers, Lewis D. (23) West Unity 

Combs, Elias B. (18) West Unity 

Conneley, Nicholas (19) Tiffin 

Coonrod, Fidelius (18) Tiffin 

Craig, John W. (18) Tiffin 

DeWyant, Nicholas (18) Stryker 

Dunscomb, Jeremiah S. (18) West Unity 

Eckes, Jacob B. (18) Tiffin 

Eitel, John (18) West Unity 

Emminger, Lloyd W. (18) Tiffin 

Flenner, Benjamin F. (18) Tiffin 

Fox, Oscar E. (18) Tiffin 

Fry, Charles H. (21) Stryker 

Gish, Michael F. (18) West Unity 

Goodsell, Charles (23) Cleveland 

Grames, George A. (18) Tiffin 

Grapes, Francis M. (18) Tiffin 

Hall, William M. (18) West Unity 

Hamlin, James A. (19) Not Given 

Hamilton, Frederick (18) Tiffin 

Hatfield, John M. (22) Cable 

Hoffman, John D. (18) Tiffin 

Jackson, Estel (26) Cleveland 

King, Jerry R.(18) Tiffin 

Kuder, David H. (18) Tiffin 

Larue, John T. (18) Cable 

Light, Hezekiah C. (18) Cable 



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HisTOEY OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Lindsey, George (18) Tiffin 

Long, Thomas (18) Cleveland 

Losier, John S. (18) Tiffin 

McKibben, John W. (18) Tiffin 

Moss, Sanford C. (18) West Unity 

Nye, Ralph (18) Tiffin 

*Orme, Ephraim J. (18) Tiffin 

Ridgley, John H. (18) Tiffin 

Sands, George (18) Tiffin 

Schultz, Emanuel (23) Tiffin 

Smeltz, Benjamin F. (18) Tiffin 

Souder, John (18) Tiffin 

Sowers, John F. (18) Stryker 

Steel, Henry B. (22) Not Given 

Stouff, Joseph (38) Stryker 

Swartz, Andrew (18) Tiffin 

Taylor, Sidney B. (18) Mechanicsburg 

Thomas, Caleb (28) West Unity 

Thompson, Edward M. (18) Cable 

Unger, Cyrus (18) Tiffin 

Wagner, Sylvester (18) Tiffin 

White, John (18) Union Co. 

White, John W. (18) Cleveland 

Williams, Roger (18) Cleveland 

Windsor, George W. (18) Tiffin 

Woodward, James T. (18) Cleveland 

Yerk, William L. (18) Tiffin 



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Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-6-1: 
COMPANY K 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

* James W. Owens, Oxford (26) Captain 

Erskine B. Fullerton, S. Salem (21) 1st Lieut. 

^Robert C. Campbell, Oxford (30) 2d Lieut. 

SERGEANTS 

Claud N. Mitchell, first (20) Dayton 

*Jacob Lofland (39) Oxford 

*Thomas H. Platter (19) Chillicothe 

*John Secrist (19) Laurel, Ind. 

Marshall L. Wilson (20) Lebanon 

CORPORAL 

Bell, William T. (19) Chillicothe 

Boake, James (19) Lebanon 

Cunningham, Marion (18) Chillicothe 

Egbert, Marion D. (19) Lebanon 

*Graham, Mitchell M. (20) Oxford 

Logue, Wesley A. (23) Oxford 

*McMillen, Duncan (20) Dayton 

*Rollins, Edwin P. (18) Oxford 

MUSICIANS 

Ebert, Charles (18) Cincinnati 

Stern, John (16) Oxford 

PRIVATES 

Allen, William (25) Marathon 

Ammerson, William M. (18) . . Fair Haven 

Appleby, Robert C. (19) Fair Haven 

Baker, Horatio N. (17) Frankfort 



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Beckett, John (18) Oxford 

Blazer, Noah (28) Chillicothe 

Blazer, Abraham (19) Chillicothe 

Brandon, Isaac (18) Troy- 
Brasher, Thomas J. (29) Colmnbus 

Brown, William H. H. (22) Oxford 

Brown, James L. (22) Middletown 

Burns, John (18) Delaware 

Callehan, William (36) Fostoria 

Chase, Leroy (18) N. Hampton 

Coate, Josias (18) Troy 

Coppock, Wesley (18) Troy 

Craig, Lewis (23) Carlisle 

Crawford, Edward (23) Tro> 

Crosby, James N. (26) Oxford 

Outright, Simeon I. (18) Chillicothe 

Dempsey, Michael (19) Oxford 

Dodge, Thompson (20) Oxford 

Douglas, Thomas (19) Oxford 

Douglas, William C. (19) Oxford 

Eddy, Washington (19) Fair Haven 

Erwine, William (22) Oxford 

Faber, James E. (19) Oxford 

Ferguson, William (18) Oxford 

Gates, John A. (21) Reily 

Graham, Eobert N. (18) Morning Sun 

Gray, Theodore L. (19) Eeily 

Gray, John M. (21) Oxford 

Hill, Oscar F. (19) Morning Sun 



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Huff, Thomas (19) Chillicothe 

Johnston, James F. (23) Morning Sun 

Jones, William (26) Fostoria 

Kemple, William A. (23) Morning Sun 

Kerwood, John W. (19) Oxford 

Kleinschmidt, Edward H. (19) Cincinnati 

Lawless, Matthew (18) Cincinnati 

Lewis, Nathan (18) New Holland 

Livingood, Asbury (34) Marathon 

McCoy, Charles (20) Oxford 

McCoy, Thomas A. (18) Brookville 

*McCoy, Wilson William (18) Chillicothe 

McDonald, James (18) Oxford 

Miles, Jacob T. (18) Troy 

Moore, Samuel (20) Spartansburg 

Morris, Theodore (16) Oxford 

*Newton, Thomas A, (18) Fair Haven 

Pierson, Robert K. (18) Lebanon 

Powell, William A. (18) Oxford 

Ramsey, Joseph T. (20) Morning Sun 

Riley, Perry (18) Chillicothe 

Roberts, Henr>^ C. (19) Oxford 

Saunders, James M. (23) Oxford 

Seevy, Patrick (18) Oxford 

Shepard, William H. (18) Connersville 

Smith, George W. (19) Oxford 

Snedley, Jerome J. (18) Scioto Co. 

Speer, George W, (27) Oxford 

Steel, William (21) Chillicothe 



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HisTOKY OF Eighty-Sixth Regiment 

Stinson, George W. (19) Chillicothe 

Stream, AVilliam M. (17) South Salem 

Sutherland, David L. (18) Frankfort 

AVells, Charles H. (18) Frankfort 

Wiltshire, Benj. F. (18) Chillicothe 

*Wright, William (18) Camden 



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Roll of Honor 

Died in Service 

BELTZ, WILLIAM, Co. H, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, October 30, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

CLAWSON, STEPHEN, Co. E, 

Died and buried at Cleveland, February 4, 
1864. 

COATE, JOSIAH, Co. K, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, October 17, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

COOK, JACOB, Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, December 28, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 13, Grave 7. 

CRAND ALL, JOSHUA, Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 2, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 13, Grave 7. 

CURRY, ADDISON, Co. B, 

Died at Crab Orchard, October 2, 1863. Buried 
at Mill Springs, Ky. 

GUSHAM, LYMAN T., Co. E, 

Died at Cleveland, February 8, 1864. Buried 
in West Side Cemetery. 

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History of Eighty-Sixth Kegiment 

HEASLEY, WILLIAM P., Co. B, 

Died at Camp Nelson, December 15, 1863. 
Buried there in Sec. B, Grave 16. 

HEIFNEE, GEORGE W., Co. C, 

Died in Andersonville Prison, September 13, 
1864. Buried there, Grave 8725. 

HOFF, WILLIAM D., Co. I, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, September 28, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 227. 

HOFFMAN, JOHN D, Co. I, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, December 7, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 13, Grave 11. 

JACKSON, ANDREW, Co. D, 

Died at Camp Nelson, November 18, 1863. 
Buried there in Sec. B, Grave 5. 

JACKSON, JOHN W., Co. G, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 28, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 39. 

KEEFER, SAMUEL, Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, October 24, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 13, Grave 12. 

KYLE, BENJAMIN, Co. A, 

Died at Camp Nelson, January 8, 1864. 

LIVINGSTON, HARLON, Co. E, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, October 7, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 137. 



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MARKLEY, PHILIP, Co. H, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 20, 1863 
Buried at Knoxville, Term. 

MARCY, GARRISON, Co. C, 

Died at Camp Nelson, January 19, 1864. 
Buried at Camp Nelson. 

MITCHELSON, JACOB, Co. D, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 27, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

MOHERMAN, LEWIS, Co. A, 

Died at Cleveland, February 8, 1864. Buried 
there in West Side Cemetery. 

NUMBERS, WILLIAM S., Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, September 24, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 228. 

PARTRIDGE, MANLY, Co. A, 

Died at Camp Nelson, September 22, 1863. 
Buried there in Sec. B, Grave 46. 

PECK, FREDERICK, Co. D, 

Died at Cincinnati, January 30, 1864. Buried 
there in Spring Grove Cemetery, Sec. B, Grave 
245. 

PERKEY, DAVID, Co. E, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 16, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 134. 



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PHILLIPS, ORSON B., Co. I, 

Died and buried at Lexington, Ky., December 
25, 1863, in Sec. 10, Grave 430. 

PALAN, GEORGE, Co. G, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 9, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 135. 

POTHOUR, EMMETT, Co. A, 

Died at Crab Orchard, Ky., October 1, 1863. 
Buried at Mill Springs, Ky. 

PRESTAGE, CHARLES A., Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, October 4, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

PRICE, JAMES, Co. H, 

Died at Cleveland, January 31, 1864. Buried 
in West Side Cemetery. 

RAKER, MARTIN, Co. F, 

Died at Cleveland, February 6, 1864. Buried 
in West Side Cemetery. 

RICHARDS, CHARLES E., Co. G, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, December 3, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

SCHLAPPI, HENRY, Co. F, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, September 24, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 231. 

SCHWAIN, PETER, Co. H, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, September 19, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

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SMITH, JOSEPH A., Co. D, 

Died at Camp Nelson, December 6, 1863. 
Buried there in Sec. B, Grave 3. 

SPRAGUE, JOHN C, Co. E, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 11, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 12, Grave 138. 

STARR, BELDEN, Co. D, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, November 8, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

STEEL, WILLIAM, Co. K, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, January 14, 1864. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

STRONG, FRANK, Co. C, 

Died at Cumberland GajD, October 14, 1863. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn., Sec. 13, Grave 10. 

WEBSTER, LYSTER L., Co. B, 

Died at Barboursville, Ky., September 16, 
1863. Buried at London, Ky., Sec. C, Grave 50. 

WELLS, CHARLES H., Co. K, 

Died at Barboursville, Ky., September 28, 
1863. Buried at London, Ky. 

WISE, HARRISON, Co. H, 

Died and buried at Camp Nelson, October 7, 
1863. 

WISE, WILLIAM, Co. B, 

Died at Cumberland Gap, January 4, 1864. 
Buried at Knoxville, Tenn. 

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'"p^HE muffled drum's sad roll has beat 

"*■ The soldier's last tattoo; 

No more on life's parade shall meet 

That brave and fallen few. 
On Fame's eternal camping ground 

Their silent tents are spread, 
And glory guards with solemn round, 

The bivouac of the dead. 



Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, 

Dear as the blood you gave; 
No impious footsteps e'er shall tread 

The herbage of your grave ; 
Nor shall your glory be forgot. 

While Fame her record keeps, 
Or Honor points the hallowed spot 

Where Valor proudly sleeps. 

— Theodore O'Hara. 






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